Majorana fermion codes

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/12/8/083039MaRDI QIDQ5135191zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Sergey Bravyi, Barbara M. Terhal, Bernhard Leemhuis

Publication date 19 November 2020

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.3791

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Exactly solvable models; Bethe ansatz (82B23) Quantum waveguides, quantum wires (82D77)

Abstract: We initiate the study of Majorana fermion codes. These codes can be viewed as extensions of Kitaev's 1D model of unpaired Majorana fermions in quantum wires to higher spatial dimensions and interacting fermions. The purpose of Majorana fermion codes (MFCs) is to protect quantum information against low-weight fermionic errors, that is, operators acting on sufficiently small subsets of fermionic modes. We examine to what extent MFCs can surpass qubit stabilizer codes in terms of their stability properties. A general construction of 2D MFCs is proposed which combines topological protection based on a macroscopic code distance with protection based on fermionic parity conservation. Finally, we use MFCs to show how to transform any qubit stabilizer code to a weakly self-dual CSS code.

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