Combined dissipative and hamiltonian confinement of cat qubits

R Gautier, A Sarlette, M Mirrahimi - PRX Quantum, 2022 - APS
Quantum error correction with biased-noise qubits can drastically reduce the hardware
overhead for universal and fault-tolerant quantum computation. Cat qubits are a promising …

Building a fault-tolerant quantum computer using concatenated cat codes

C Chamberland, K Noh, P Arrangoiz-Arriola… - PRX Quantum, 2022 - APS
We present a comprehensive architectural analysis for a proposed fault-tolerant quantum
computer based on cat codes concatenated with outer quantum error-correcting codes. For …

Quantum error correction with metastable states of trapped ions using erasure conversion

M Kang, WC Campbell, KR Brown - PRX Quantum, 2023 - APS
Erasures, or errors with known locations, are a more favorable type of error for quantum
error-correcting codes than Pauli errors. Converting physical noise into erasures can …

Fault-tolerant weighted union-find decoding on the toric code

S Huang, M Newman, KR Brown - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
Quantum error correction requires decoders that are both accurate and efficient. To this end,
union-find decoding has emerged as a promising candidate for error correction on the …

Magic state distillation and cost analysis in fault-tolerant universal quantum computation

Y Liu, Z Ma, L Luo, C Du, Y Fei, H Wang… - Quantum Science …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Magic states have been widely studied in recent years as resource states that help quantum
computers achieve fault-tolerant universal quantum computing. The fault-tolerant quantum …

[HTML][HTML] Large-N Chern insulators: Lattice field theory and quantum simulation approaches to correlation effects in the quantum anomalous Hall effect

L Ziegler, E Tirrito, M Lewenstein, S Hands… - Annals of Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Four-Fermi quantum field theories in (2+ 1) dimensions lie among the simplest models in
high-energy physics, the understanding of which requires a non-perturbative lattice …

Optimization of the surface code design for Majorana-based qubits

R Chao, ME Beverland, N Delfosse, J Haah - Quantum, 2020 - quantum-journal.org
The surface code is a prominent topological error-correcting code exhibiting high fault-
tolerance accuracy thresholds. Conventional schemes for error correction with the surface …

High-fidelity magic-state preparation with a biased-noise architecture

S Singh, AS Darmawan, BJ Brown, S Puri - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
Magic state distillation is a resource intensive subroutine that consumes noisy input states to
produce high-fidelity resource states that are used to perform logical operations in practical …

Optimization tools for distance-preserving flag fault-tolerant error correction

B Pato, T Tansuwannont, S Huang, KR Brown - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
Lookup-table decoding is fast and distance preserving, making it attractive for near-term
quantum computer architectures with small-distance quantum error-correcting codes. In this …

Less bacon more threshold

C Gidney, D Bacon - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.12046, 2023 - arxiv.org
We give the Bacon-Shor code a threshold purely by deleting gates from its circuit.
Specifically: we use lattice surgery to concatenate the Bacon-Shor code with itself using …