Logical error rate scaling of the toric code

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/16/9/093045zbMATH Open1451.81198arXiv1312.5213OpenAlexW2161666550MaRDI QIDQ3386980FDOQ3386980

Authors: Fern H. E. Watson, Sean D. Barrett 

Publication date: 12 January 2021

Published in: New Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: To date, a great deal of attention has focused on characterizing the performance of quantum error correcting codes via their thresholds, the maximum correctable physical error rate for a given noise model and decoding strategy. Practical quantum computers will necessarily operate below these thresholds meaning that other performance indicators become important. In this work we consider the scaling of the logical error rate of the toric code and demonstrate how, in turn, this may be used to calculate a key performance indicator. We use a perfect matching decoding algorithm to find the scaling of the logical error rate and find two distinct operating regimes. The first regime admits a universal scaling analysis due to a mapping to a statistical physics model. The second regime characterizes the behavior in the limit of small physical error rate and can be understood by counting the error configurations leading to the failure of the decoder. We present a conjecture for the ranges of validity of these two regimes and use them to quantify the overhead -- the total number of physical qubits required to perform error correction.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.5213

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum computation (81P68) Quantum gates (81P65) Computational stability and error-correcting codes for quantum computation and communication processing (81P73)

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