General Approach to Error Detection of Bosonic Codes via Phase Estimation

TL;DR

This paper introduces a versatile quantum phase estimation method for detecting errors in bosonic quantum codes, achieving high precision and applicable to various code types, with demonstrated numerical results and experimental feasibility.

Contribution

It develops a general, adaptive phase estimation approach for error detection in bosonic codes, including GKP and cat codes, with Heisenberg-limited precision and efficient Fock state generation.

Findings

Achieves Heisenberg-limited error detection precision.

Successfully detects excitation loss and displacement errors in numerical simulations.

Proposes experimentally feasible schemes for current quantum technologies.

Abstract

We present a general approach to error detection of bosonic quantum error-correction codes via an adaptive quantum phase estimation algorithm assisted by a single ancilla qubit. The approach is applicable to a broad class of bosonic codes whose error syndromes are described by symmetry or stabilizer operators, including the rotation-symmetric codes and Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) codes. The detection precision scales inversely with the total evolution time and thus reaches the Heisenberg limit. We numerically demonstrate the approach for several examples, such as detecting bosonic excitation loss errors in high-order cat or binomial codes and displacement errors in finite-energy GKP codes. We also extend the approach to efficiently generate arbitrary Fock states. Our schemes are feasible in present-day experiments.