Topological subsystem bivariate bicycle codes with four-qubit check operators

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author Liang, Zijian
Chen, Yu-An
author_facet Liang, Zijian
Chen, Yu-An
contents High-rate bivariate bicycle (BB) codes are promising low-overhead quantum memories, but their stabilizer checks typically have weight $6$ or higher, making syndrome extraction challenging. We introduce subsystem bivariate bicycle (SBB) codes, a translation-invariant CSS subsystem construction that realizes BB-code logical structure using local weight-$4$ gauge measurements. Their stabilizer syndromes are inferred by multiplying the corresponding gauge outcomes. We further show that nonlocal stabilizers in translation-invariant CSS subsystem codes can be detected using a determinantal-ideal criterion based on the gauge-operator commutation matrix. When this criterion excludes nonlocal stabilizers, a finite-depth Clifford circuit decouples gauge qubits and identifies the protected subsystem with a corresponding BB stabilizer code. An SBB code is topological, meaning that it has no nontrivial local logical operators, if and only if the corresponding BB code is topological. A finite search yields low-overhead examples including $[[27,6,3]]$, $[[75,10,5]]$, and $[[108,12,6]]$; the latter encodes six times more logical qubits than a subsystem surface code at the same block length and distance. These results show how gauge degrees of freedom can make high-rate BB logical structure compatible with local weight-$4$ syndrome extraction.
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spellingShingle Topological subsystem bivariate bicycle codes with four-qubit check operators
Liang, Zijian
Chen, Yu-An
Quantum Physics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mathematical Physics
Quantum Algebra
High-rate bivariate bicycle (BB) codes are promising low-overhead quantum memories, but their stabilizer checks typically have weight $6$ or higher, making syndrome extraction challenging. We introduce subsystem bivariate bicycle (SBB) codes, a translation-invariant CSS subsystem construction that realizes BB-code logical structure using local weight-$4$ gauge measurements. Their stabilizer syndromes are inferred by multiplying the corresponding gauge outcomes. We further show that nonlocal stabilizers in translation-invariant CSS subsystem codes can be detected using a determinantal-ideal criterion based on the gauge-operator commutation matrix. When this criterion excludes nonlocal stabilizers, a finite-depth Clifford circuit decouples gauge qubits and identifies the protected subsystem with a corresponding BB stabilizer code. An SBB code is topological, meaning that it has no nontrivial local logical operators, if and only if the corresponding BB code is topological. A finite search yields low-overhead examples including $[[27,6,3]]$, $[[75,10,5]]$, and $[[108,12,6]]$; the latter encodes six times more logical qubits than a subsystem surface code at the same block length and distance. These results show how gauge degrees of freedom can make high-rate BB logical structure compatible with local weight-$4$ syndrome extraction.
title Topological subsystem bivariate bicycle codes with four-qubit check operators
topic Quantum Physics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mathematical Physics
Quantum Algebra
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04151