Parallel Logical Measurements via Quantum Code Surgery

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Main Authors: Cowtan, Alexander, He, Zhiyang, Williamson, Dominic J., Yoder, Theodore J.
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Published: 2025
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author Cowtan, Alexander
He, Zhiyang
Williamson, Dominic J.
Yoder, Theodore J.
author_facet Cowtan, Alexander
He, Zhiyang
Williamson, Dominic J.
Yoder, Theodore J.
contents Quantum code surgery is a flexible and low overhead technique for performing logical measurements on quantum error-correcting codes, which generalises lattice surgery. In this work, we present a code surgery scheme, applicable to any qubit stabiliser low-density parity check (LDPC) code, that fault-tolerantly measures many logical Pauli operators in parallel. For a collection of logically disjoint Pauli product measurements supported on $t$ logical qubits, our scheme uses $O\big(t ω(\log t + \log^3ω)\big)$ ancilla qubits, where $ω\geq d$ is the maximum weight of the single logical Pauli representatives involved in the measurements, and $d$ is the code distance. This is all done in time $O(d)$ independent of $t$. Our proposed scheme preserves both the LDPC property and the fault-distance of the original code, without requiring ancillary logical codeblocks which may be costly to prepare. This addresses a shortcoming of several recently introduced surgery schemes which can only be applied to measure a limited number of logical operators in parallel if they overlap on data qubits.
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spellingShingle Parallel Logical Measurements via Quantum Code Surgery
Cowtan, Alexander
He, Zhiyang
Williamson, Dominic J.
Yoder, Theodore J.
Quantum Physics
Quantum code surgery is a flexible and low overhead technique for performing logical measurements on quantum error-correcting codes, which generalises lattice surgery. In this work, we present a code surgery scheme, applicable to any qubit stabiliser low-density parity check (LDPC) code, that fault-tolerantly measures many logical Pauli operators in parallel. For a collection of logically disjoint Pauli product measurements supported on $t$ logical qubits, our scheme uses $O\big(t ω(\log t + \log^3ω)\big)$ ancilla qubits, where $ω\geq d$ is the maximum weight of the single logical Pauli representatives involved in the measurements, and $d$ is the code distance. This is all done in time $O(d)$ independent of $t$. Our proposed scheme preserves both the LDPC property and the fault-distance of the original code, without requiring ancillary logical codeblocks which may be costly to prepare. This addresses a shortcoming of several recently introduced surgery schemes which can only be applied to measure a limited number of logical operators in parallel if they overlap on data qubits.
title Parallel Logical Measurements via Quantum Code Surgery
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05003