Concatenating quantum error-correcting codes with decoherence-free subspaces and vice versa

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Hauptverfasser: Dash, Nihar Ranjan, Dutta, Sanjoy, Srikanth, R., Banerjee, Subhashish
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author Dash, Nihar Ranjan
Dutta, Sanjoy
Srikanth, R.
Banerjee, Subhashish
author_facet Dash, Nihar Ranjan
Dutta, Sanjoy
Srikanth, R.
Banerjee, Subhashish
contents Quantum error-correcting codes (QECCs) and decoherence-free subspace (DFS) codes provide active and passive means, respectively, to address certain types of errors that arise during quantum computation. The latter technique is suitable to correct correlated errors with certain symmetries and the former to correct independent errors. The concatenation of a QECC and a DFS code results in a degenerate code that splits into actively and passively correcting parts, with the degeneracy impacting either part, leading to degenerate errors as well as degenerate stabilizer operators. The concatenation of the two types of code can aid universal fault-tolerant quantum computation when a mix of correlated and independent errors is encountered. In particular, we show that for sufficiently strongly correlated errors, the concatenation with the DFS as the inner code provides better entanglement fidelity, whereas for sufficiently independent errors, the concatenation with the QECC as the inner code is preferable. As illustrative examples, we examine in detail the concatenation of a two-qubit DFS code and a three-qubit repetition code or five-qubit Knill-Laflamme code, under independent and correlated errors.
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spellingShingle Concatenating quantum error-correcting codes with decoherence-free subspaces and vice versa
Dash, Nihar Ranjan
Dutta, Sanjoy
Srikanth, R.
Banerjee, Subhashish
Quantum Physics
Quantum error-correcting codes (QECCs) and decoherence-free subspace (DFS) codes provide active and passive means, respectively, to address certain types of errors that arise during quantum computation. The latter technique is suitable to correct correlated errors with certain symmetries and the former to correct independent errors. The concatenation of a QECC and a DFS code results in a degenerate code that splits into actively and passively correcting parts, with the degeneracy impacting either part, leading to degenerate errors as well as degenerate stabilizer operators. The concatenation of the two types of code can aid universal fault-tolerant quantum computation when a mix of correlated and independent errors is encountered. In particular, we show that for sufficiently strongly correlated errors, the concatenation with the DFS as the inner code provides better entanglement fidelity, whereas for sufficiently independent errors, the concatenation with the QECC as the inner code is preferable. As illustrative examples, we examine in detail the concatenation of a two-qubit DFS code and a three-qubit repetition code or five-qubit Knill-Laflamme code, under independent and correlated errors.
title Concatenating quantum error-correcting codes with decoherence-free subspaces and vice versa
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08322