Published April 18, 2024 | Version v1
Journal article

Code conversion with the quantum Golay code for a universal transversal gate set

  • 1. Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA

Description

The [[7,1,3]] Steane code and [[23,1,7]] quantum Golay code have been identified as good candidates for fault-tolerant quantum computing via code concatenation. These two codes have transversal implementations of all Clifford gates but require some other scheme for fault-tolerant T gates. Using magic states, Clifford operations, and measurements is one common scheme, but magic-state distillation can have a large overhead. Code conversion is one avenue for implementing a universal gate set fault tolerantly without the use of magic-state distillation. Analogously to how the [[7,1,3]] Steane code can be fault tolerantly converted to and from the [[15,1,3]] Reed-Muller code which has a transversal T gate, the [[23,1,7]] Golay code can be converted to a [[95,1,7]] triorthogonal code with a transversal T gate. A crucial ingredient of this procedure is the [[49,1,5]] triorthogonal code, which can itself be seen as being related to the self-dual [[17,1,5]] two-dimensional color code. Additionally, a method for code conversion based on a transversal cnot between the codes, rather than stabilizer measurements, is described.

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevA.109.042416;
arXiv
arXiv:2307.14425;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/100000015;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review A
Journal Volume
109
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
9 pgs.
ISSN
1094-1622

Optional Information

Copyright
©2024 American Physical Society
Contract/Grant/Project number
DE-SC0012704
Notes
Contact Email: msullivan1@bnl.gov; Record automatically processed
Funding organization
U.S. Department of Energy