Low-overhead fault-tolerant error correction scheme based on quantum stabilizer codes

Fault-tolerant error-correction(FTEC)circuit is the foundation for achieving reliable quantum computation and remote communication.However,designing a fault-tolerant error correction scheme with a solid error-correction ability and low overhead remains a significant challenge.In this paper,a low-overhead fault-tolerant error correction scheme is proposed for quantum communication systems.Firstly,syndrome ancillas are prepared into Bell states to detect errors caused by channel noise.We propose a detection approach that reduces the propagation path of quantum gate fault and reduces the circuit depth by splitting the stabilizer generator into X-type and Z-type.Additionally,a syndrome extraction circuit is equipped with two flag qubits to detect quantum gate faults,which may also introduce errors into the code block during the error detection process.Finally,analytical results are provided to demonstrate the fault-tolerant performance of the proposed FTEC scheme with the lower overhead of the ancillary qubits and circuit depth.

Encoding entanglement-assisted quantum stabilizer codes

We address the problem of encoding entanglement-assisted （EA） quantum error-correcting codes （QECCs） and of the corresponding complexity. We present an iterative algorithm from which a quantum circuit composed of CNOT, H, and S gates can be derived directly with complexity O（n2） to encode the qubits being sent. Moreover, we derive the number of each gate consumed in our algorithm according to which we can design EA QECCs with low encoding complexity. Another advantage brought by our algorithm is the easiness and efficiency of programming on classical computers.

Decoding topological XYZ^(2) codes with reinforcement learning based on attention mechanisms

Quantum error correction, a technique that relies on the principle of redundancy to encode logical information into additional qubits to better protect the system from noise, is necessary to design a viable quantum computer. For this new topological stabilizer code-XYZ^(2) code defined on the cellular lattice, it is implemented on a hexagonal lattice of qubits and it encodes the logical qubits with the help of stabilizer measurements of weight six and weight two. However topological stabilizer codes in cellular lattice quantum systems suffer from the detrimental effects of noise due to interaction with the environment. Several decoding approaches have been proposed to address this problem. Here, we propose the use of a state-attention based reinforcement learning decoder to decode XYZ^(2) codes, which enables the decoder to more accurately focus on the information related to the current decoding position, and the error correction accuracy of our reinforcement learning decoder model under the optimisation conditions can reach 83.27% under the depolarizing noise model, and we have measured thresholds of 0.18856 and 0.19043 for XYZ^(2) codes at code spacing of 3–7 and 7–11, respectively. our study provides directions and ideas for applications of decoding schemes combining reinforcement learning attention mechanisms to other topological quantum error-correcting codes.

Development of Hybrid ARQ Protocol for the Quantum Communication System on Stabilizer Codes

In this paper,we develop a novel hybrid automatic-repeat-request(ARQ)protocol for the quantum communication system using quantum stabilizer codes.The quantum information is encoded by stabilizer codes to against the channel noise.The twophoton entangled state is prepared for codeword secure transmission.Hybrid ARQ protocol rules the recognition and retransmission of error codewords.In this protocol,the property of quantum entangled state ensures the security of information,the theory of hybrid ARQ system improves the reliability of transmission,the theory of quantum stabilizer codes corrects the flipping errors of codewords.Finally,we verify the security and throughput efficiency of this protocol.

Construction of nonbinary quantum cyclic codes by using graph method

Using the graph method proposed by Schlingemann and Werner, this paper introduces a technique to construct nonbinary quantum cyclic codes and provides a specific example. We also construct the quantum codes [[8, 2, 4]]p and [[n, n - 2, 2]]p for all odd primes p by the graph method.