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Main Authors: Sommers, Grace M., Foss-Feig, Michael, Hayes, David, Huse, David A., Gullans, Michael J.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00579
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author Sommers, Grace M.
Foss-Feig, Michael
Hayes, David
Huse, David A.
Gullans, Michael J.
author_facet Sommers, Grace M.
Foss-Feig, Michael
Hayes, David
Huse, David A.
Gullans, Michael J.
contents We introduce a fault-tolerant protocol for code concatenation of a generalized Shor code using a butterfly network architecture with high noise thresholds and low ancilla overhead to allow implementation on current devices. We develop a probability passing decoder using tensor networks that applies Bayesian updates to the marginal error probabilities after each layer of checks, achieving a state preparation threshold of $e_c \approx 0.089$ for erasure errors, and $\approx 0.015$ for unheralded noise. We implement our state preparation protocol on ion-trap hardware with added noise to demonstrate the threshold behavior in a real quantum device. We further theoretically test the performance of our scheme as a quantum memory and for universal quantum computation through the preparation of low-noise magic states for state distillation and $T$-gate injection.
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spellingShingle Observation of a Fault Tolerance Threshold with Concatenated Codes
Sommers, Grace M.
Foss-Feig, Michael
Hayes, David
Huse, David A.
Gullans, Michael J.
Quantum Physics
We introduce a fault-tolerant protocol for code concatenation of a generalized Shor code using a butterfly network architecture with high noise thresholds and low ancilla overhead to allow implementation on current devices. We develop a probability passing decoder using tensor networks that applies Bayesian updates to the marginal error probabilities after each layer of checks, achieving a state preparation threshold of $e_c \approx 0.089$ for erasure errors, and $\approx 0.015$ for unheralded noise. We implement our state preparation protocol on ion-trap hardware with added noise to demonstrate the threshold behavior in a real quantum device. We further theoretically test the performance of our scheme as a quantum memory and for universal quantum computation through the preparation of low-noise magic states for state distillation and $T$-gate injection.
title Observation of a Fault Tolerance Threshold with Concatenated Codes
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00579