Ultrahigh Error Threshold for Surface Codes with Biased Noise

We show that a simple modification of the surface code can exhibit an enormous gain in the error correction threshold for a noise model in which Pauli Z errors occur more frequently than X or Y errors. Such biased noise, where dephasing dominates, is ubiquitous in many quantum architectures. In the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tuckett, David K., Bartlett, Stephen D., Flammia, Steven Thomas
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114303