Block quantum code 

Description

A code constructed in a physical space consisting of a tensor product of \(n\) identical subsystems, e.g., qubits, modular qudits, Galois qudits, or oscillators.

Protection

Block codes protect from errors acting on a few of the \(n\) subsystems. A block code with distance \(d\) detects errors acting on up to \(d-1\) subsystems, and corrects erasure errors on up to \(d-1\) subsystems.

Transversal Gates

Transversal gates are logical gates on block codes that can be realized as tensor products of unitary operations acting on subsets of subsystems whose size is independent of \(n\). When the subsets are of size one and the single-subsystem unitaries are identical, then the gates are sometimes called strongly transversal.

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Zoo Code ID: block_quantum

Cite as:
“Block quantum code”, The Error Correction Zoo (V. V. Albert & P. Faist, eds.), 2023. https://errorcorrectionzoo.org/c/block_quantum
BibTeX:
@incollection{eczoo_block_quantum,
  title={Block quantum code},
  booktitle={The Error Correction Zoo},
  year={2023},
  editor={Albert, Victor V. and Faist, Philippe},
  url={https://errorcorrectionzoo.org/c/block_quantum}
}
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