Low-overhead quantum error correction codes with a cyclic topology
Abstract: Quantum error correction is an important ingredient for scalable quantum computing. Stabilizer codes are one of the most promising and straightforward ways to correct quantum errors, are convenient for logical operations, and improve performance with increasing the number of qubits involved. Here, we propose a resource-efficient scaling of a five-qubit perfect code with increasing-weight cyclic stabilizers for small distances on the ring architecture, which takes into account the topological features of the superconducting platform. We show an approach to construct the quantum circuit of a correction code with ancillas entangled with non-neighboring data qubits. Furthermore, we introduce a neural network-based decoding algorithm supported by an improved lookup table decoder and provide a numerical simulation of the proposed code, which demonstrates the exponential suppression of the logical error rate.
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