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Main Authors: Roberts, Brenden, Koh, Jin Ming, Tan, Yi, Yao, Norman Y.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05479
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author Roberts, Brenden
Koh, Jin Ming
Tan, Yi
Yao, Norman Y.
author_facet Roberts, Brenden
Koh, Jin Ming
Tan, Yi
Yao, Norman Y.
contents The existence of self-correcting quantum memories in three dimensions is a long-standing open question at the interface between quantum computing and many-body physics. We take the perspective that large contributions to the entropy arising from fine-tuned spatial symmetries, including the assumption of an underlying regular lattice, are responsible for fundamental challenges to realizing self-correction. Accordingly, we introduce a class of disordered quantum codes, which we call "cored product codes". These codes are derived from classical factors via the hypergraph product but undergo a coring procedure which allows them to be embedded in a lower number of spatial dimensions while preserving code properties. As a specific example, we focus on a fractal code based on the aperiodic pinwheel tiling as the classical factor and perform finite temperature numerical simulations on the resulting three-dimensional quantum memory. We provide evidence that, below a critical temperature, the memory lifetime increases with system size for codes up to 60000 qubits.
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spellingShingle Cored product codes for quantum self-correction in three dimensions
Roberts, Brenden
Koh, Jin Ming
Tan, Yi
Yao, Norman Y.
Quantum Physics
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Statistical Mechanics
The existence of self-correcting quantum memories in three dimensions is a long-standing open question at the interface between quantum computing and many-body physics. We take the perspective that large contributions to the entropy arising from fine-tuned spatial symmetries, including the assumption of an underlying regular lattice, are responsible for fundamental challenges to realizing self-correction. Accordingly, we introduce a class of disordered quantum codes, which we call "cored product codes". These codes are derived from classical factors via the hypergraph product but undergo a coring procedure which allows them to be embedded in a lower number of spatial dimensions while preserving code properties. As a specific example, we focus on a fractal code based on the aperiodic pinwheel tiling as the classical factor and perform finite temperature numerical simulations on the resulting three-dimensional quantum memory. We provide evidence that, below a critical temperature, the memory lifetime increases with system size for codes up to 60000 qubits.
title Cored product codes for quantum self-correction in three dimensions
topic Quantum Physics
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Statistical Mechanics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05479