Encoding One Logical Qubit Into Six Physical Qubits

dc.creatorShaw, Bilal
dc.creatorWilde, Mark M.
dc.creatorOreshkov, Ognyan
dc.creatorKremsky, Isaac
dc.creatorLidar, Daniel A.
dc.date2008-03-10
dc.date2008-08-12
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dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:55:48Z
dc.descriptionWe discuss two methods to encode one qubit into six physical qubits. Each of our two examples corrects an arbitrary single-qubit error. Our first example is a degenerate six-qubit quantum error-correcting code. We explicitly provide the stabilizer generators, encoding circuit, codewords, logical Pauli operators, and logical CNOT operator for this code. We also show how to convert this code into a non-trivial subsystem code that saturates the subsystem Singleton bound. We then prove that a six-qubit code without entanglement assistance cannot simultaneously possess a Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) stabilizer and correct an arbitrary single-qubit error. A corollary of this result is that the Steane seven-qubit code is the smallest single-error correcting CSS code. Our second example is the construction of a non-degenerate six-qubit CSS entanglement-assisted code. This code uses one bit of entanglement (an ebit) shared between the sender and the receiver and corrects an arbitrary single-qubit error. The code we obtain is globally equivalent to the Steane seven-qubit code and thus corrects an arbitrary error on the receiver's half of the ebit as well. We prove that this code is the smallest code with a CSS structure that uses only one ebit and corrects an arbitrary single-qubit error on the sender's side. We discuss the advantages and disadvantages for each of the two codes.
dc.description13 pages, 3 figures, 4 tables
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0803.1495
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0803.1495
dc.identifierPhysical Review A 78, 012337 (2008)
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevA.78.012337
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/166755
dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.titleEncoding One Logical Qubit Into Six Physical Qubits
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