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Simulation of the five-qubit quantum error correction code on superconducting qubits

I. A. Simakov, I. S. Besedin, A. V. Ustinov

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevA.105.032409 · Physical Review A

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Abstract

Experimental realization of stabilizer-based quantum error correction (QEC) codes that would yield superior logical qubit performance is one of the formidable task for state-of-the-art quantum processors. A major obstacle toward realizing this goal is the large footprint of QEC codes, even those with a small distance. We propose a circuit based on the minimal distance-3 QEC code, which requires only five data qubits and five ancilla qubits, connected in a ring with iswap gates implemented between neighboring qubits. Using a density-matrix simulation, we show that, thanks to its smaller footprint, the proposed code has a lower logical error rate than surface-17 for similar physical error rates. We also estimate the performance of a neural-network-based error decoder, which can be trained to accommodate the error statistics of a specific quantum processor by training on experimental data.

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