Anyon condensation and the color code

MS Kesselring, JC Magdalena de la Fuente… - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
The manipulation of topologically ordered phases of matter to encode and process quantum
information forms the cornerstone of many approaches to fault-tolerant quantum computing …

Poking holes and cutting corners to achieve Clifford gates with the surface code

BJ Brown, K Laubscher, MS Kesselring, JR Wootton - Physical Review X, 2017 - APS
The surface code is currently the leading proposal to achieve fault-tolerant quantum
computation. Among its strengths are the plethora of known ways in which fault-tolerant …

Tailoring surface codes for highly biased noise

DK Tuckett, AS Darmawan, CT Chubb, S Bravyi… - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
The surface code, with a simple modification, exhibits ultrahigh error-correction thresholds
when the noise is biased toward dephasing. Here, we identify features of the surface code …

2d compass codes

M Li, D Miller, M Newman, Y Wu, KR Brown - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
The compass model on a square lattice provides a natural template for building subsystem
stabilizer codes. The surface code and the Bacon-Shor code represent two extremes of …

Hyperbolic and semi-hyperbolic surface codes for quantum storage

NP Breuckmann, C Vuillot, E Campbell… - Quantum Science …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We show how a hyperbolic surface code could be used for overhead-efficient quantum
storage. We give numerical evidence for a noise threshold of $1.3\% $ for the $\{4, 5\} …

The boundaries and twist defects of the color code and their applications to topological quantum computation

MS Kesselring, F Pastawski, J Eisert, BJ Brown - Quantum, 2018 - quantum-journal.org
The color code is both an interesting example of an exactly solved topologically ordered
phase of matter and also among the most promising candidate models to realize fault …

A scalable decoder micro-architecture for fault-tolerant quantum computing

P Das, CA Pattison, S Manne, D Carmean… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Quantum computation promises significant computational advantages over classical
computation for some problems. However, quantum hardware suffers from much higher …

Fault-tolerant gates on hypergraph product codes

A Krishna, D Poulin - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
Quantum computers have the capacity to change the landscape of computing. To make
these devices robust to experimental imperfections, we require some form of quantum error …

Planar floquet codes

C Vuillot - arxiv preprint arxiv:2110.05348, 2021 - arxiv.org
A protocol called the" honeycomb code", or generically a" Floquet code", was introduced by
Hastings and Haah in\cite {hastings_dynamically_2021}. The honeycomb code is a …

Lattice surgery translation for quantum computation

D Herr, F Nori, SJ Devitt - New Journal of physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper we outline a method for a compiler to translate any non fault tolerant quantum
circuit to the geometric representation of the lattice surgery error-correcting code using …