Correlated decoding of logical algorithms with transversal gates

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Autores principales: Cain, Madelyn, Zhao, Chen, Zhou, Hengyun, Meister, Nadine, Ataides, J. Pablo Bonilla, Jaffe, Arthur, Bluvstein, Dolev, Lukin, Mikhail D.
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author Cain, Madelyn
Zhao, Chen
Zhou, Hengyun
Meister, Nadine
Ataides, J. Pablo Bonilla
Jaffe, Arthur
Bluvstein, Dolev
Lukin, Mikhail D.
author_facet Cain, Madelyn
Zhao, Chen
Zhou, Hengyun
Meister, Nadine
Ataides, J. Pablo Bonilla
Jaffe, Arthur
Bluvstein, Dolev
Lukin, Mikhail D.
contents Quantum error correction is believed to be essential for scalable quantum computation, but its implementation is challenging due to its considerable space-time overhead. Motivated by recent experiments demonstrating efficient manipulation of logical qubits using transversal gates (Bluvstein et al., Nature 626, 58-65 (2024)), we show that the performance of logical algorithms can be substantially improved by decoding the qubits jointly to account for error propagation during transversal entangling gates. We find that such correlated decoding improves the performance of both Clifford and non-Clifford transversal entangling gates, and explore two decoders offering different computational runtimes and accuracies. In particular, by leveraging the deterministic propagation of stabilizer measurement errors through transversal Clifford gates, we find that correlated decoding enables the number of noisy syndrome extraction rounds between these gates to be reduced from $O(d)$ to $O(1)$ in Clifford circuits, where $d$ is the code distance. We verify numerically that this approach substantially reduces the space-time cost of deep logical Clifford circuits. These results demonstrate that correlated decoding provides a major advantage in early fault-tolerant computation, as realized in recent experiments, and further indicate it has considerable potential to reduce the space-time cost in large-scale logical algorithms.
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spellingShingle Correlated decoding of logical algorithms with transversal gates
Cain, Madelyn
Zhao, Chen
Zhou, Hengyun
Meister, Nadine
Ataides, J. Pablo Bonilla
Jaffe, Arthur
Bluvstein, Dolev
Lukin, Mikhail D.
Quantum Physics
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Statistical Mechanics
Quantum error correction is believed to be essential for scalable quantum computation, but its implementation is challenging due to its considerable space-time overhead. Motivated by recent experiments demonstrating efficient manipulation of logical qubits using transversal gates (Bluvstein et al., Nature 626, 58-65 (2024)), we show that the performance of logical algorithms can be substantially improved by decoding the qubits jointly to account for error propagation during transversal entangling gates. We find that such correlated decoding improves the performance of both Clifford and non-Clifford transversal entangling gates, and explore two decoders offering different computational runtimes and accuracies. In particular, by leveraging the deterministic propagation of stabilizer measurement errors through transversal Clifford gates, we find that correlated decoding enables the number of noisy syndrome extraction rounds between these gates to be reduced from $O(d)$ to $O(1)$ in Clifford circuits, where $d$ is the code distance. We verify numerically that this approach substantially reduces the space-time cost of deep logical Clifford circuits. These results demonstrate that correlated decoding provides a major advantage in early fault-tolerant computation, as realized in recent experiments, and further indicate it has considerable potential to reduce the space-time cost in large-scale logical algorithms.
title Correlated decoding of logical algorithms with transversal gates
topic Quantum Physics
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Statistical Mechanics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03272