Description
Error-detecting six-qubit code with rate \(2/3\) whose codewords are cat/GHZ states. A set of stabilizer generators is \(XXXXXX\) and \(ZZZZZZ\). It is the unique code for its parameters, up to local equivalence [5; Tab. III]. Concatenations of this code with itself yield the \([[6^r,4^r,2^r]]\) level-\(r\) many-hypercube code [6].
Stabilizer generators are shown in Figure I. See [6; Appx. B] for a set of logical Paulis.
Encoding
See [6; Fig. 5].
Transversal Gates
CNOT and Hadamard gates [6; Appx. B].A \(CZ\) gate implemented by transversal \(S\) and \(S^{\dagger}\) [7]; see also [8].
Gates
Universal Clifford gates via the logical circuit synthesis algorithm [9][10; Sec. III].
Decoding
Efficient decoder for the many-hypercube code [6].
Realizations
Trapped-ion devices: Bayesian quantum phase estimation on a device by Quantinuum [11].
Parents
- \([[2m,2m-2,2]]\) error-detecting code — The \([[2m,2m-2,2]]\) error-detecting code for \(m=3\) reduces to the \([[6,4,2]]\) error-detecting code.
- Honeycomb (6.6.6) color code — The \([[6,4,2]]\) error-detecting code is a color code defined on a single hexagon of the 6.6.6 tiling. The \([[6,4,2]]\) code can be concatenated with the surface code to yield the 6.6.6 color code [12; Appx. A].
- Small-distance block quantum code
Cousin
- Concatenated qubit code — Concatenations of this code with itself yield the level-\(r\) \([[6^r,4^r,2^r]]\) many-hypercube code [6]. The \([[6,4,2]]\) code can be concatenated with the surface code to yield the 6.6.6 color code [12; Appx. A].
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Page edit log
- Victor V. Albert (2024-03-28) — most recent
Cite as:
“\([[6,4,2]]\) error-detecting code”, The Error Correction Zoo (V. V. Albert & P. Faist, eds.), 2024. https://errorcorrectionzoo.org/c/stab_6_4_2