Square-lattice GKP code[1]
Description
Single-mode GKP qudit-into-oscillator code based on the rectangular lattice. Its stabilizer generators are oscillator displacement operators \(\hat{S}_q(2\alpha)=e^{-2i\alpha \hat{p}}\) and \(\hat{S}_p(2\beta)=e^{2i\beta \hat{x}}\). To ensure \(\hat{S}_q(2\alpha)\) and \(\hat{S}_p(2\beta)\) generate a stabilizer group that is Abelian, there is a constraint that \(\alpha\beta=2q\pi\) where \(q\) is an integer denoting the logical dimension.
Codewords can be expressed as equal weight superpositions of coherent states on a rectangular lattice in phase space with spatial period \(2\sqrt{\pi}\). The exact GKP state is non-normalizable, so approximate constructs have to be considered.
The \(q=1\) trivial encoding is spanned by the canonical GKP state or grid state, \begin{align} |GKP\rangle=\sum_{n\in\mathbb{Z}}|x=n\sqrt{2\pi}\rangle~, \tag*{(1)}\end{align} where \(|x\rangle\) are single-mode position states.
Protection
For stabilizer \(\hat{S}_q(2\alpha),\hat{S}_p(2\beta)\), code can correct displacement errors up to \(\alpha/2\) in the \(q\)-direction and \(\beta/2\) at \(p\)-direction. Approximately protects against photon loss errors [2,3], outperforming most other codes designed to explicitly protect against loss [3]. Very sensitive to dephasing errors [4]. A biased-noise GKP error correcting code can be prepared by choosing \(\alpha\neq \beta\).
Encoding
Preparation of approximate square-lattice GKP states is studied both theoretically and experimentally by putting the GKP lattice inside a Gaussian envelope [2,5–7].Dissipative stabilization of finite-energy square-lattice GKP states using stabilizers conjugated by a cooling ([8], Appx. B) or damping operator, i.e., a damped exponential of the total occupation number [9,10].Two Josephson junctions coupled by a gyrator [11].Periodic driving (a.k.a. Floquet engineering) [12].Approximate GKP states can be prepared using Gaussian operations and photon detectors [13].
Gates
By applying square-lattice GKP error correction to Gaussian input states, universality can be achieved without non-Gaussian elements [14].
Decoding
Syndrome measurement can be done by applying a controlled-displacement controlled by an ancilla qubit. The syndrome information can be obtained by measuring the ancilla qubit after controlled-displacement opearation. See Section. 2D in [4].Pauli \(X\),\(Y\) and \(Z\) measurements can be performed by measuring \(-\hat{p},\hat{x}-\hat{p}\) and \(\hat{x}\) repectively. If the measurement outcome is closed to an even multiple of \(\sqrt{\pi}\), then the outcome is +1. If the measurement outcome is closed to an odd multiple of \(\sqrt{\pi}\), then the outcome is -1. See Section. 2D in [4].Reinforcement learning decoder that uses only one ancilla qubit [15].
Fault Tolerance
Clifford gates can be realized by performing linear-optical operations, sympletic transformations and displacements, all of which are Gaussian operations. Pauli gates can be performed using displacement operators. Clifford gates are fault tolerant in the sense that they map bounded-size errors to bounded-size errors [1].Error correction scheme is fault-tolerant to displacement noise as long as all input states have displacement errors less than \(\sqrt{\pi}/6\) [16].
Realizations
Motional degree of freedom of a trapped ion: square-lattice GKP encoding realized with the help of post-selection [17,18], followed by realization of reduced form of GKP error correction, where displacement error syndromes are measured to one bit of precision using an ion electronic state [10].Microwave cavity coupled to superconducting circuits: reduced form of square-lattice GKP error correction, where displacement error syndromes are measured to one bit of precision using an ancillary transmon [19]. Subsequent paper [15] uses reinforcement learning for error-correction cycle design and is the first to go beyond break-even error-correction, with the lifetime of a logical qubit exceeding the cavity lifetime by about a factor of two (see also [20]).Single-qubit \(Z\)-gate has been demonstrated in the single-photon subspace of an infinite-mode space [21], in which time and frequency become bosonic conjugate variables of a single effective bosonic mode.In signal processing, GKP state position-state wavefunctions are related to Dirac combs [22].
Notes
Parents
Cousins
- Approximate quantum error-correcting code (AQECC) — Square-lattice GKP codes approximately protect against photon loss [2,3,24].
- Rotor code — Because square-lattice GKP error states are parameterized by two modular (i.e., periodic) variables of position and momentum, measuring one of the GKP stabilizers constrains the oscillator Hilbert space into that of a rotor.
- \(\mathbb{Z}^n\) hypercubic lattice code — GKP codewords, when written in terms of coherent states, form a square lattice in phase space.
- Kitaev current-mirror qubit code — Current-mirror code phase gates utilize ancillary osillators in square-lattice GKP states [25,26].
- Zero-pi qubit code — Zero-pi code phase gates utilize ancillary osillators in square-lattice GKP states [25,26].
- Rotor GKP code — GKP (rotor GKP) codes protect against shifts in linear (angular) degrees of freedom.
- Number-phase code — Square-lattice GKP codes utilize translational symmetry in phase space, while number-phase codes utilize rotational symmetry. The two are related via a mapping [27].
- Spin GKP code — Spin-GKP code constructions utilize the Holstein-Primakoff mapping [28] (see also [29]) to convert various expressions for square-lattice GKP states into codes for spin systems.
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“Square-lattice GKP code”, The Error Correction Zoo (V. V. Albert & P. Faist, eds.), 2022. https://errorcorrectionzoo.org/c/gkp