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Kaavya Sahay, J. Jin, Jahan Claes, J. Thompson, S. Puri
Physical Review X, 2023
Physical Review X, 2023
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Sahay, K., Jin, J., Claes, J., Thompson, J., & Puri, S. (2023). High-Threshold Codes for Neutral-Atom Qubits with Biased Erasure Errors. Physical Review X.
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Sahay, Kaavya, J. Jin, Jahan Claes, J. Thompson, and S. Puri. “High-Threshold Codes for Neutral-Atom Qubits with Biased Erasure Errors.” Physical Review X (2023).
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@article{kaavya2023a,
title = {High-Threshold Codes for Neutral-Atom Qubits with Biased Erasure Errors},
year = {2023},
journal = {Physical Review X},
author = {Sahay, Kaavya and Jin, J. and Claes, Jahan and Thompson, J. and Puri, S.}
}
Abstract
The requirements for fault-tolerant quantum error correction can be simplified by leveraging structure in the noise of the underlying hardware. In this work, we identify a new type of structured noise motivated by neutral atom qubits, biased erasure errors, which arises when qubit errors are dominated by detectable leakage from only one of the computational states of the qubit. We study the performance of this model using gate-level simulations of the XZZX surface code. Using the predicted erasure fraction and bias of metastable $^{171}$Yb qubits, we find a threshold of 8.2% for two-qubit gate errors, which is 1.9 times higher than the threshold for unbiased erasures, and 7.5 times higher than the threshold for depolarizing errors. Surprisingly, the improved threshold is achieved without bias-preserving controlled-not gates, and instead results from the lower noise entropy in this model. We also introduce an XZZX cluster state construction for measurement-based error correction, hybrid-fusion, that is optimized for this noise model. By combining fusion operations and deterministic entangling gates, this construction preserves the intrinsic symmetry of the XZZX code, leading to a higher threshold of 10.3% and enabling the use of rectangular codes with fewer qubits. We discuss a potential physical implementation using a single plane of atoms and moveable tweezers.
