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Qubit-oscillator-based gate implementations for approximate Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill codes

Quantum Physics 2025-09-22 v1

Abstract

We consider hybrid qubit-oscillator systems together with Gaussian, multi-qubit as well as qubit-controlled Gaussian unitaries. We propose implementations of logical gates for approximate Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill codes in this model using two oscillators and three qubits. We show that these gate implementations become exact in the limit of large squeezing: The logical gate error is upper bounded by a linear function of the squeezing parameter, and depends polynomially on the number of encoded qubits. For certain Cliffords, our constructions overcome a shortcoming of well-known Gaussian implementations which have a constant logical gate error even in the absence of noise.

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@article{arxiv.2509.15707,
  title  = {Qubit-oscillator-based gate implementations for approximate Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill codes},
  author = {Lukas Brenner and Beatriz Dias and Robert Koenig},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.15707},
  year   = {2025}
}

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39 pages, 12 figures

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