Optimizing quantum error correction protocols with erasure qubits

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Autores principales: Gu, Shouzhen, Vaknin, Yotam, Retzker, Alex, Kubica, Aleksander
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Publicado: 2024
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author Gu, Shouzhen
Vaknin, Yotam
Retzker, Alex
Kubica, Aleksander
author_facet Gu, Shouzhen
Vaknin, Yotam
Retzker, Alex
Kubica, Aleksander
contents Erasure qubits offer a promising avenue toward reducing the overhead of quantum error correction (QEC) protocols. However, they require additional operations, such as erasure checks, that may add extra noise and increase runtime of QEC protocols. To assess the benefits provided by erasure qubits, we focus on the performance of the surface code as a quantum memory. In particular, we analyze various erasure check schedules, find the correctable regions in the phase space of error parameters and probe the subthreshold scaling of the logical error rate. We then consider a realization of erasure qubits in the superconducting hardware architectures via dual-rail qubits. We use the standard transmon-based implementation of the surface code as the performance benchmark. Our results indicate that QEC protocols with erasure qubits can outperform the ones with state-of-the-art transmons, even in the absence of precise information about the locations of erasure errors.
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spellingShingle Optimizing quantum error correction protocols with erasure qubits
Gu, Shouzhen
Vaknin, Yotam
Retzker, Alex
Kubica, Aleksander
Quantum Physics
Erasure qubits offer a promising avenue toward reducing the overhead of quantum error correction (QEC) protocols. However, they require additional operations, such as erasure checks, that may add extra noise and increase runtime of QEC protocols. To assess the benefits provided by erasure qubits, we focus on the performance of the surface code as a quantum memory. In particular, we analyze various erasure check schedules, find the correctable regions in the phase space of error parameters and probe the subthreshold scaling of the logical error rate. We then consider a realization of erasure qubits in the superconducting hardware architectures via dual-rail qubits. We use the standard transmon-based implementation of the surface code as the performance benchmark. Our results indicate that QEC protocols with erasure qubits can outperform the ones with state-of-the-art transmons, even in the absence of precise information about the locations of erasure errors.
title Optimizing quantum error correction protocols with erasure qubits
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00829