Description
Permutation invariant qubit code encoding a \(K\)-dimensional Hilbert space into the maximally symmetric subspace or collective spin of \(2\ell\) spin-half systems. This \(2\ell+1\)-dimensional Hilbert space can be thought of as a standalone spin-\(\ell\) quantum system.
Protection
Noise models can be categorized as those that cause the state to leave the maximally symmetric subspace and those that do not. The former include single-spin errors akin to qubit Pauli noise. The latter include collective rotations or decays.
Transversal Gates
When the physical Hilbert space is thought of a collective spin, logical gates for spin codes have the form \(U^{\otimes N}\), where \(U\) is a local rotation on the physical system.
Parents
- Spin code
- Permutation-invariant code — Single-spin codes are subspaces of a single large spin, which can be either standalone or correspond to the permutation-invariant subspace of a set of spins.
Children
Cousin
- Quantum spherical code (QSC) — Single-spin codes whose codewords are expressed in terms of discrete sets of spin-coherent states may also be interpreted as QSCs.
Page edit log
- Victor V. Albert (2022-11-13) — most recent
Cite as:
“Single-spin code”, The Error Correction Zoo (V. V. Albert & P. Faist, eds.), 2022. https://errorcorrectionzoo.org/c/single_spin
Github: https://github.com/errorcorrectionzoo/eczoo_data/tree/main/codes/quantum/spins/single_spin.yml.