Dynamical codes for hardware with noisy readouts
Peter-Jan H.S. Derks, Alex Townsend-Teague, Jens Eisert, Markus S. Kesselring, Oscar Higgott, Benjamin J. Brown

TL;DR
This paper investigates how to optimize measurement schedules in dynamical stabilizer codes under various noise biases, demonstrating that strategic measurement repetition improves performance mainly in measurement-biased noise scenarios, and emphasizing the importance of considering correlated errors in decoding.
Contribution
It introduces a generalized teraquop volume metric and analyzes measurement repetition strategies, revealing their impact on code performance under different noise biases.
Findings
Measurement repetition improves performance in measurement-biased noise.
Teraquop volume is a key metric for evaluating code performance.
Using belief matching decoding enhances code robustness with correlated errors.
Abstract
Dynamical stabilizer codes may offer a practical route to large-scale quantum computation. Such codes are defined by a schedule of error-detecting measurements, which allows for flexibility in their construction. In this work, we ask how best to optimise the measurement schedule of dynamically condensed colour codes in various limits of noise bias. We take a particular focus on the setting where measurements introduce more noise than unitary and idling operations - a noise model relevant to some hardware proposals. For measurement-biased noise models, we improve code performance by strategically repeating measurements within the schedule. For unbiased or -biased noise models, we find repeating measurements offers little improvement - somewhat contrary to our expectations - and investigate why this is. To perform this analysis, we generalise a metric called the teraquop footprint to…
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Taxonomy
TopicsQuantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture · Quantum Information and Cryptography · Quantum Mechanics and Applications
