Floquet Codes on Non-Trivalent Lattices

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Abstract

Floquet codes are a novel form of quantum error correcting codes, where the logical degrees of freedom appear in a dynamical form. The first example of such a code was constructed by Hastings and Haah on a honeycomb lattice. Specifically, they showed how to Floquetify the Kitaev honeycomb model, which when viewed as a subsystem code, encodes no logical qubits. However, by choosing a particular measurement schedule of the check operators, this model leads to dynamically encoded logical qubits. Since this initial work, several examples of Floquet codes have been constructed, mainly on trivalent lattices. Here, we report progress on understanding when such codes can be implemented on lattices of different connectivities.

* M.S.A. acknowledges support from USRA NASA Academic Mission Services under contract No. NNA16BD14C.

Publication: (manuscript in preparation)

Presenters

  • M. Sohaib Alam

    NASA Ames Research Center

Authors

  • M. Sohaib Alam

    NASA Ames Research Center

  • Eleanor G Rieffel

    NASA Ames Research Center, NASA