Description
Galois-qudit CSS code constructed from a CSS code and a classical code using a distance-balancing procedure based on a generalized homological product. The initial code is said to be unbalanced, i.e., tailored to noise biased toward either bit- or phase-flip errors, and the procedure can result in a code that is treats both types of errors on a more equal footing. The original distance-balancing procedure [1], later generalized [3; Thm. 4.2], can yield QLDPC codes [1; Thm. 1].
Weight reduction: Various procedures performing weight reduction [1,2,4] take in a qubit stabilizer code and output a longer code that admits a set of stabilizer generators whose weight is independent of the number of qubits \(n\). The weight reduction procedure of Ref. [4] has been extended to subsystem qubit stabilizer codes [5].
Decoding
The effective distance of single-ancilla syndrome extraction QLDPC code circuits can be preserved under weight reduction [6]. The distance balancing technique of Ref. [3] preserves the effective distance of single-ancilla syndrome extraction circuits [6].Fault Tolerance
Single-ancilla syndrome extraction circuits that, for the most part, preserve the effective distance of weight-reduced qLDPC codes [6]. The distance balancing technique of Ref. [3] preserves effective distance [6].Cousins
- Homological product code— Distance balancing relies on taking a homological product of chain complexes corresponding to a classical and a quantum code.
- Subsystem qubit stabilizer code
- GKP CV-cluster-state code— Weight reduction has been studied in the context of GKP CV-cluster-state codes [4].
- Quantum LDPC (QLDPC) code— Lattice surgery techniques for QLDPC codes [7,8] utilize weight reduction. Single-ancilla syndrome extraction circuits that, for the most part, preserve the effective distance of weight-reduced qLDPC codes [6].
- Asymmetric quantum code— Distance balancing is a procedure that can convert an asymmetric CSS code into a less asymmetric one.
- Quantum locally testable code (QLTC)— Distance balancing and weight reduction are useful for constructing QLTCs [1,9,10].
- Fiber-bundle code— Fiber-bundle code constructions use distance balancing and weight reduction to increase distance.
- Quantum check-product code— Quantum check-product code constructions use distance balancing to increase distance [11].
- High-dimensional expander (HDX) code— Ramanujan tensor-product constructions use distance balancing to increase distance.
- Hemicubic code— Application of generalized distance balancing [3] to hemicubic codes using an asymptotically good classical code of length \(t\) yields \(O(1/(\log(n) t^2))\) soundness and order \(\Theta(\sqrt{n}t)\) distance while maintaining locality scaling and at the expense of a dimension scaling as order \(\Theta(t^2)\) [9].
- Hypersphere product code— The hypersphere product code family has asymptotically diminishing soundness that scales as order \(O(1/\log (n)^2)\), locality of stabilizer generators scaling as order \(O(\log n/ \log\log n)\), and distance order \(\Theta(\sqrt{n})\). Application of generalized distance balancing [3] to hemicubic codes using an asymptotically good classical code of length \(t\) yields \(O(1/(\log(n)^2 t^2))\) soundness and order \(\Theta(\sqrt{n}t)\) distance while maintaining locality scaling and at the expense of a dimension scaling as order \(\Theta(t^2)\) [9].
- Balanced product (BP) code— Distance balancing is used to form balanced-product subsystem codes [12].
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Parents
Generalized homological-product CSS codeGeneralized homological-product QLDPC CSS Stabilizer Hamiltonian-based QECC Quantum
Distance-balanced code
References
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- N. P. Breuckmann and J. N. Eberhardt, “Balanced Product Quantum Codes”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 67, 6653 (2021) arXiv:2012.09271 DOI
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- Victor V. Albert (2022-01-20) — most recent
Cite as:
“Distance-balanced code”, The Error Correction Zoo (V. V. Albert & P. Faist, eds.), 2022. https://errorcorrectionzoo.org/c/distance_balanced