Systematic Design and Optimization of Quantum Circuits for Stabilizer Codes

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Main Authors: Mondal, Arijit, Parhi, Keshab K.
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Published: 2023
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author Mondal, Arijit
Parhi, Keshab K.
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Parhi, Keshab K.
contents Quantum computing is an emerging technology that has the potential to achieve exponential speedups over their classical counterparts. To achieve quantum advantage, quantum principles are being applied to fields such as communications, information processing, and artificial intelligence. However, quantum computers face a fundamental issue since quantum bits are extremely noisy and prone to decoherence. Keeping qubits error free is one of the most important steps towards reliable quantum computing. Different stabilizer codes for quantum error correction have been proposed in past decades and several methods have been proposed to import classical error correcting codes to the quantum domain. However, formal approaches towards the design and optimization of circuits for these quantum encoders and decoders have so far not been proposed. In this paper, we propose a formal algorithm for systematic construction of encoding circuits for general stabilizer codes. This algorithm is used to design encoding and decoding circuits for an eight-qubit code. Next, we propose a systematic method for the optimization of the encoder circuit thus designed. Using the proposed method, we optimize the encoding circuit in terms of the number of 2-qubit gates used. The proposed optimized eight-qubit encoder uses 18 CNOT gates and 4 Hadamard gates, as compared to 14 single qubit gates, 33 2-qubit gates, and 6 CCNOT gates in a prior work. The encoder and decoder circuits are verified using IBM Qiskit. We also present optimized encoder circuits for Steane code and a 13-qubit code in terms of the number of gates used.
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Mondal, Arijit
Parhi, Keshab K.
Quantum Physics
Signal Processing
Quantum computing is an emerging technology that has the potential to achieve exponential speedups over their classical counterparts. To achieve quantum advantage, quantum principles are being applied to fields such as communications, information processing, and artificial intelligence. However, quantum computers face a fundamental issue since quantum bits are extremely noisy and prone to decoherence. Keeping qubits error free is one of the most important steps towards reliable quantum computing. Different stabilizer codes for quantum error correction have been proposed in past decades and several methods have been proposed to import classical error correcting codes to the quantum domain. However, formal approaches towards the design and optimization of circuits for these quantum encoders and decoders have so far not been proposed. In this paper, we propose a formal algorithm for systematic construction of encoding circuits for general stabilizer codes. This algorithm is used to design encoding and decoding circuits for an eight-qubit code. Next, we propose a systematic method for the optimization of the encoder circuit thus designed. Using the proposed method, we optimize the encoding circuit in terms of the number of 2-qubit gates used. The proposed optimized eight-qubit encoder uses 18 CNOT gates and 4 Hadamard gates, as compared to 14 single qubit gates, 33 2-qubit gates, and 6 CCNOT gates in a prior work. The encoder and decoder circuits are verified using IBM Qiskit. We also present optimized encoder circuits for Steane code and a 13-qubit code in terms of the number of gates used.
title Systematic Design and Optimization of Quantum Circuits for Stabilizer Codes
topic Quantum Physics
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.12373