Small Quantum Codes from Algebraic Extensions of Generalized Bicycle Codes

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Main Authors: Koukoulekidis, Nikolaos, Šimkovic IV, Fedor, Leib, Martin, Pereira, Francisco Revson Fernandes
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Published: 2024
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author Koukoulekidis, Nikolaos
Šimkovic IV, Fedor
Leib, Martin
Pereira, Francisco Revson Fernandes
author_facet Koukoulekidis, Nikolaos
Šimkovic IV, Fedor
Leib, Martin
Pereira, Francisco Revson Fernandes
contents Quantum error correction is rapidly seeing first experimental implementations, but there is a significant gap between asymptotically optimal error-correcting codes and codes that are experimentally feasible. Quantum LDPC codes range from the surface code, which has a vanishing encoding rate, to very promising codes with constant encoding rate and linear distance. In this work, motivated by current small-scale experimental quantum processing units, we devise small quantum codes that are inspired by a subset of quantum LDPC codes, known as generalized bicycle (GB) codes. We introduce a code construction based on algebraic manipulation of the parity-check matrix of GB codes, rather than manipulation of Tanner graphs. Our construction leads to families of quantum LDPC codes of small size, and we demonstrate numerically that their performance scales comparably to the performance of surface codes for similar sizes under a phenomenological noise model. The advantage of our code family is that they encode many logical qubits in one code, at the expense of non-local connectivity. We then explore three variants of the code construction focusing on reducing the long-range connectivity by bringing it closer to the current experimental capabilities of short-range connectivity devices.
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spellingShingle Small Quantum Codes from Algebraic Extensions of Generalized Bicycle Codes
Koukoulekidis, Nikolaos
Šimkovic IV, Fedor
Leib, Martin
Pereira, Francisco Revson Fernandes
Quantum Physics
Information Theory
Quantum error correction is rapidly seeing first experimental implementations, but there is a significant gap between asymptotically optimal error-correcting codes and codes that are experimentally feasible. Quantum LDPC codes range from the surface code, which has a vanishing encoding rate, to very promising codes with constant encoding rate and linear distance. In this work, motivated by current small-scale experimental quantum processing units, we devise small quantum codes that are inspired by a subset of quantum LDPC codes, known as generalized bicycle (GB) codes. We introduce a code construction based on algebraic manipulation of the parity-check matrix of GB codes, rather than manipulation of Tanner graphs. Our construction leads to families of quantum LDPC codes of small size, and we demonstrate numerically that their performance scales comparably to the performance of surface codes for similar sizes under a phenomenological noise model. The advantage of our code family is that they encode many logical qubits in one code, at the expense of non-local connectivity. We then explore three variants of the code construction focusing on reducing the long-range connectivity by bringing it closer to the current experimental capabilities of short-range connectivity devices.
title Small Quantum Codes from Algebraic Extensions of Generalized Bicycle Codes
topic Quantum Physics
Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07583