Hierarchical memories: Simulating quantum LDPC codes with local gates

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Autores principales: Pattison, Christopher A., Krishna, Anirudh, Preskill, John
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Publicado: 2023
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author Pattison, Christopher A.
Krishna, Anirudh
Preskill, John
author_facet Pattison, Christopher A.
Krishna, Anirudh
Preskill, John
contents Constant-rate low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are promising candidates for constructing efficient fault-tolerant quantum memories. However, if physical gates are subject to geometric-locality constraints, it becomes challenging to realize these codes. In this paper, we construct a new family of $[[N,K,D]]$ codes, referred to as hierarchical codes, that encode a number of logical qubits $K = Ω(N/\log(N)^2)$. The N-th element of this code family is obtained by concatenating a constant-rate quantum LDPC code with a surface code; nearest-neighbor gates in two dimensions are sufficient to implement the corresponding syndrome-extraction circuit and achieve a threshold. Below threshold the logical failure rate vanishes superpolynomially as a function of the distance $D(N)$. We present a bilayer architecture for implementing the syndrome-extraction circuit, and estimate the logical failure rate for this architecture. Under conservative assumptions, we find that the hierarchical code outperforms the basic encoding where all logical qubits are encoded in the surface code.
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spellingShingle Hierarchical memories: Simulating quantum LDPC codes with local gates
Pattison, Christopher A.
Krishna, Anirudh
Preskill, John
Quantum Physics
Constant-rate low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are promising candidates for constructing efficient fault-tolerant quantum memories. However, if physical gates are subject to geometric-locality constraints, it becomes challenging to realize these codes. In this paper, we construct a new family of $[[N,K,D]]$ codes, referred to as hierarchical codes, that encode a number of logical qubits $K = Ω(N/\log(N)^2)$. The N-th element of this code family is obtained by concatenating a constant-rate quantum LDPC code with a surface code; nearest-neighbor gates in two dimensions are sufficient to implement the corresponding syndrome-extraction circuit and achieve a threshold. Below threshold the logical failure rate vanishes superpolynomially as a function of the distance $D(N)$. We present a bilayer architecture for implementing the syndrome-extraction circuit, and estimate the logical failure rate for this architecture. Under conservative assumptions, we find that the hierarchical code outperforms the basic encoding where all logical qubits are encoded in the surface code.
title Hierarchical memories: Simulating quantum LDPC codes with local gates
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04798