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Towards Ultra-High-Rate Quantum Error Correction with Reconfigurable Atom Arrays

Quantum Physics 2026-05-13 v1 Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

Quantum error correction is widely believed to be essential for large-scale quantum computation, but the required qubit overhead remains a central challenge. Quantum low-density parity-check codes can substantially reduce this overhead through high-rate encodings, yet finite-size instances with practical logical error rates often achieve encoding rates only around or below 1/101/10. Here, building on a recent ultra-high-rate construction by Kasai, we identify new structural conditions on the underlying affine permutation matrices that make encoding rates exceeding 1/21/2 compatible with efficient implementation on reconfigurable neutral atom arrays. These conditions define a co-designed family of ultra-high-rate quantum codes that supports efficient syndrome extraction and atom rearrangement under realistic parallel control constraints. Using a hierarchical decoder with high accuracy and good throughput, we study the performance under a circuit-level noise model with p=0.1%p=0.1\%, achieving per-logical-per-round error rates of 1.30.9+3.0×10131.3_{-0.9}^{+3.0} \times 10^{-13} with a [[2304,1156,14]][[2304,1156,\leq 14]] code and 2.91.5+3.1×10112.9_{-1.5}^{+3.1} \times 10^{-11} with a [[1152,580,12]][[1152,580,\leq 12]] code. These results approach the teraquop regime, highlighting the promise of this code family for practical ultra-high-rate quantum error correction.

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@article{arxiv.2604.16209,
  title  = {Towards Ultra-High-Rate Quantum Error Correction with Reconfigurable Atom Arrays},
  author = {Chen Zhao and Casey Duckering and Andi Gu and Nishad Maskara and Hengyun Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.16209},
  year   = {2026}
}
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