Subsystem Codes with High Thresholds by Gauge Fixing and Reduced Qubit Overhead

We introduce a technique that uses gauge fixing to significantly improve the quantum-error-correcting performance of subsystem codes. By changing the order in which check operators are measured, valuable additional information can be gained, and we introduce a new method for decoding which uses this...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Oscar Higgott, Nikolas P. Breuckmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2021-08-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.11.031039