Constant depth fault-tolerant Clifford circuits for multi-qubit large block codes
Abstract
Fault-tolerant quantum computation (FTQC) schemes using large block codes that encode qubits in physical qubits can potentially reduce the resource overhead to a great extent because of their high encoding rate. However, the fault-tolerant (FT) logical operations for the encoded qubits are difficult to find and implement, which usually takes not only a very large resource overhead but also long computation time. In this paper, we focus on Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) codes and their logical FT Clifford circuits. We show that the depth of an arbitrary logical Clifford circuit can be implemented fault-tolerantly in steps \emph{in-situ} via either Knill or Steane syndrome measurement circuit, with the qualified ancilla states efficiently prepared. Particularly, for those codes satisfying , the resource scaling for Clifford circuits implementation on the logical level can be the same as on the physical level up to a constant, which is independent of code distance . With a suitable pipeline to produce ancilla states, our scheme requires only a modest resource cost in physical qubits, physical gates, and computation time for very large scale FTQC.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2003.12328,
title = {Constant depth fault-tolerant Clifford circuits for multi-qubit large block codes},
author = {Yi-Cong Zheng and Ching-Yi Lai and Todd A. Brun and Leong-Chuan Kwek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.12328},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
13 pages, 6 figures. This paper supersedes the previous arXiv:1805.12082 by authors; v2:published version