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Topological subsystem bivariate bicycle codes with four-qubit check operators

Quantum Physics 2026-05-07 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Algebra

Abstract

High-rate bivariate bicycle (BB) codes are promising low-overhead quantum memories, but their stabilizer checks typically have weight 66 or higher, making syndrome extraction challenging. We introduce subsystem bivariate bicycle (SBB) codes, a translation-invariant CSS subsystem construction that realizes BB-code logical structure using local weight-44 gauge measurements. Their stabilizer syndromes are inferred by multiplying the corresponding gauge outcomes. We further show that nonlocal stabilizers in translation-invariant CSS subsystem codes can be detected using a determinantal-ideal criterion based on the gauge-operator commutation matrix. When this criterion excludes nonlocal stabilizers, a finite-depth Clifford circuit decouples gauge qubits and identifies the protected subsystem with a corresponding BB stabilizer code. An SBB code is topological, meaning that it has no nontrivial local logical operators, if and only if the corresponding BB code is topological. A finite search yields low-overhead examples including [[27,6,3]][[27,6,3]], [[75,10,5]][[75,10,5]], and [[108,12,6]][[108,12,6]]; the latter encodes six times more logical qubits than a subsystem surface code at the same block length and distance. These results show how gauge degrees of freedom can make high-rate BB logical structure compatible with local weight-44 syndrome extraction.

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@article{arxiv.2605.04151,
  title  = {Topological subsystem bivariate bicycle codes with four-qubit check operators},
  author = {Zijian Liang and Yu-An Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.04151},
  year   = {2026}
}

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7+29 pages, 3+2 figures

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