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arXiv:2412.16450 · Physical Review A

High-rate amplitude-damping Shor codes with immunity to collective coherent errors

En-Jui Chang, Ching–Yi Lai

Published May 5, 2025• 3 citations
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Abstract

We introduce a family of high-rate amplitude-damping (AD) Shor codes, designed to effectively correct AD errors while maintaining immunity to collective coherent (CC) errors. The proposed $[[(w+1)(w+K),K]]$ AD codes can approximately correct up to $w$ AD errors, with flexible parameters $(w,K)$, and we provide a rigorous proof that these codes satisfy the approximate quantum error-correction conditions. These codes leverage structured stabilizer measurements, enabling efficient detection of AD errors using only local operations and ancillary qubits. We further construct a family of CC-AD Shor codes by concatenating these AD codes with the dual-rail code.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.111.052602

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