Modular-qudit code
Description
Protection
A convenient and often considered error set is the modular-qudit analogue of the Pauli string basis for qubit codes. For a single qudit, this set consists of products of powers of the qudit Pauli matrices \(X\) and \(Z\), which act on computational basis states \(|k\rangle\) for \(k\in\mathbb{Z}_q\) as \begin{align} X\left|k\right\rangle =\left|k+1\right\rangle \,\,\text{ and }\,\,Z\left|k\right\rangle =e^{i\frac{2\pi}{q}k}\left|k\right\rangle ~, \end{align} with addition performed modulo \(q\). For multiple qudits, error set elements are tensor products of elements of the single-qudit error set.
The Pauli error set is a unitary basis for linear operators on the multi-qudit Hilbert space that is orthonormal under the Hilbert-Schmidt inner product; it is a nice error basis [1]. The distance associated with this set is often the minimum weight of a qudit Pauli string that implements a nontrivial logical operation in the code.
Decoding
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Cousins
- Galois-qudit code — A Galois qudit for \(q=p^m\) can be decomposed into a Kronecker product of \(m\) modular qudits [2]; see Sec. 5.3 of Ref. [3]. The two coincide when \(q\) is prime, and reduce to qubits when \(q=2\). However, Pauli matrices for the two types of qudits are defined differently.
- Group-based quantum code — Group quantum codes whose physical spaces are constructed using modular-integer groups \(\mathbb{Z}_q\) are modular-qudit codes.
Zoo code information
References
- [1]
- E. Knill, “Non-binary Unitary Error Bases and Quantum Codes”. quant-ph/9608048
- [2]
- Alexei Ashikhmin and Emanuel Knill, “Nonbinary Quantum Stabilizer Codes”. quant-ph/0005008
- [3]
- Annika Niehage, “Quantum Goppa Codes over Hyperelliptic Curves”. quant-ph/0501074
Cite as:
“Modular-qudit code”, The Error Correction Zoo (V. V. Albert & P. Faist, eds.), 2022. https://errorcorrectionzoo.org/c/qudits_into_qudits