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Flying-cat parity checks for quantum error correction

2024· preprint· en· W4392270687 on OpenAlexafffund
Z. M. McIntyre, W. A. Coish

Bibliographic record

VenuePhysical Review Research · 2024
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicQuantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
FundersFonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologiesNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsParity (physics)Computer scienceQuantumError detection and correctionArithmeticMathematicsAlgorithmPhysicsQuantum mechanics

Abstract

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Long range, multiqubit parity checks have applications in both quantum error correction and measurement-based entanglement generation. Such parity checks could be performed using qubit-state-dependent phase shifts on propagating pulses of light described by coherent states <a:math xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><a:mrow><a:mo>|</a:mo><a:mi>α</a:mi><a:mo>〉</a:mo></a:mrow></a:math> of the electromagnetic field. We consider “flying-cat” parity checks based on an entangling operation that is quantum nondemolition for Schrödinger's cat states <b:math xmlns:b="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><b:mrow><b:mrow><b:mo>|</b:mo><b:mi>α</b:mi><b:mo>〉</b:mo></b:mrow><b:mo>±</b:mo><b:mrow><b:mo>|</b:mo><b:mrow><b:mo>−</b:mo><b:mi>α</b:mi></b:mrow><b:mo>〉</b:mo></b:mrow></b:mrow></b:math>. This operation encodes parity information in the phase of maximally distinguishable coherent states <c:math xmlns:c="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><c:mrow><c:mo>|</c:mo><c:mrow><c:mo>±</c:mo><c:mi>α</c:mi></c:mrow><c:mo>〉</c:mo></c:mrow></c:math>, which can be read out using a phase-sensitive measurement of the electromagnetic field. In contrast to many implementations, where single-qubit errors and measurement errors can be treated as independent, photon loss during flying-cat parity checks introduces errors on physical qubits at a rate that is anticorrelated with the probability for measurement errors. We analyze this trade-off for three-qubit parity checks, which are a requirement for universal fault-tolerant quantum computing with the subsystem surface code. We further show how a six-qubit entangled “tetrahedron” state can be prepared using these three-qubit parity checks. The tetrahedron state can be used as a resource for controlled quantum teleportation of a two-qubit state or as a source of shared randomness with potential applications in three-party quantum key distribution. Finally, we provide conditions for performing high-quality flying-cat parity checks in a state-of-the-art circuit QED architecture, accounting for qubit decoherence, internal cavity losses, and finite-duration pulses, in addition to transmission losses. Published by the American Physical Society 2024

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Research integrity
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.853
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0030.006
Research integrity0.0000.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.123
GPT teacher head0.458
Teacher spread0.335 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designOther design
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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