AI-Enabled Decoding of Qubit Loss for Quantum Error-Correcting Codes
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| author | Wang, Yuqing Nie, Xiaotian Dai, Jiale Ni, Zhongyi Zhang, Tao Zhai, Hui Chen, Linghui |
| author_facet | Wang, Yuqing Nie, Xiaotian Dai, Jiale Ni, Zhongyi Zhang, Tao Zhai, Hui Chen, Linghui |
| contents | Qubit loss is a major source of error in quantum computation, as it invalidates the algebraic structure of the standard stabilizer formalism for quantum error-correcting codes. On the one hand, it complicates decoding; on the other hand, it introduces stochastic flicker patterns in stabilizers as a hallmark of qubit loss. Here, we develop an artificial-intelligence-enabled decoder based on a spatiotemporal Graph Neural Network (STGNN) architecture to extract spatial and temporal correlations from syndrome histories. Our decoder performs a dual-head task, simultaneously correcting standard Pauli errors and identifying the locations of qubit loss. Our decoder achieves significantly higher logical accuracy than both the traditional minimum-weight perfect matching (MWPM) algorithm and even delayed-erasure MWPM decoders that use qubit loss information from the final round as input. Our decoder can also identify more than 90% of loss locations after accumulating stabilizer measurements over the subsequent ten rounds, thereby facilitating qubit reinitialization, for instance, via the continuous loading technique on the atom array platform. For both tasks, our STGNN performs nearly identically to a modified version of AlphaQubit, but it employs a parallel input structure, giving it an advantage in inference time over modified AlphaQubit's recurrent input structure. This work provides a robust and scalable framework for correcting qubit loss errors, paving the way for more efficient fault-tolerant quantum computation. |
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| spellingShingle | AI-Enabled Decoding of Qubit Loss for Quantum Error-Correcting Codes Wang, Yuqing Nie, Xiaotian Dai, Jiale Ni, Zhongyi Zhang, Tao Zhai, Hui Chen, Linghui Quantum Physics Quantum Gases Qubit loss is a major source of error in quantum computation, as it invalidates the algebraic structure of the standard stabilizer formalism for quantum error-correcting codes. On the one hand, it complicates decoding; on the other hand, it introduces stochastic flicker patterns in stabilizers as a hallmark of qubit loss. Here, we develop an artificial-intelligence-enabled decoder based on a spatiotemporal Graph Neural Network (STGNN) architecture to extract spatial and temporal correlations from syndrome histories. Our decoder performs a dual-head task, simultaneously correcting standard Pauli errors and identifying the locations of qubit loss. Our decoder achieves significantly higher logical accuracy than both the traditional minimum-weight perfect matching (MWPM) algorithm and even delayed-erasure MWPM decoders that use qubit loss information from the final round as input. Our decoder can also identify more than 90% of loss locations after accumulating stabilizer measurements over the subsequent ten rounds, thereby facilitating qubit reinitialization, for instance, via the continuous loading technique on the atom array platform. For both tasks, our STGNN performs nearly identically to a modified version of AlphaQubit, but it employs a parallel input structure, giving it an advantage in inference time over modified AlphaQubit's recurrent input structure. This work provides a robust and scalable framework for correcting qubit loss errors, paving the way for more efficient fault-tolerant quantum computation. |
| title | AI-Enabled Decoding of Qubit Loss for Quantum Error-Correcting Codes |
| topic | Quantum Physics Quantum Gases |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.14269 |