Here is a list of all quantum codes that admit transversal gates. Applicable to codes living in a tensor-product space, such gates can be written as a tensor product of unitary operations, with each operation acting on its corresponding subsystem.
Name Transversal gates
3D fermionic surface code CCZ and CS gates can be obtained for the fermionic 3D surface code on certain manifolds by circuits that can be interpreted as moving and spreading lattice realizations of Kitaev chain and \(p+ip\) defects [1].
Bacon-Shor code Logical Hadamard is transversal in symmetric Bacon-Shor codes up to a qubit permutation [2] and can be implemented with teleportation [3]. Bacon-Shor codes on an \(m \times mk\) lattice admit transversal \(k\)-qubit-controlled \(Z\) gates [4].
Ball color code The 3D ball codes on duals of the truncated octahedron, truncated cuboctahedron, and truncated icosidodecahedron have transveral \(CCZ\) gates.
Binary dihedral permutation-invariant code Binary dihedral group gates can be realized transversally, which include subsgroups of any level of the Clifford hierarchy and subgroups which cannot be realized by any qubit stabilizer code.
Block quantum code Transversal gates are logical gates on block codes that can be realized as tensor products of unitary operations acting on subsets of subsystems whose size is independent of \(n\). When the subsets are of size one and the single-subsystem unitaries are identical, then the gates are sometimes called strongly transversal.
Clifford code Discrete subgroups of \(SU(2)\) can be realized transversally.
Covariant code \(G\)-covariant codes defined on a tensor product space consisting of \(n\) subsystems are equivalent to codes with a transversal gate set realizing \(G\).
Doubled color code Doubled color codes are triply-even, so they yield a transversal \(T\) gate [5]. Using gauge fixing, the codes admit a Clifford + \(T\) transversal gate set.
Fibonacci string-net code A universal transversal gate set could be implemented in a folded version of this code using the techniques introduced in Ref.[6].
Five-qubit perfect code Pauli gates are transversal, along with a non-Pauli Hadamard-phase gate \(SH\) and three-qubit Clifford operation \(M_3\) [7,8]. These realize the \(2T\) binary tetrahedral subgroup of \(SU(2)\). The code does not admit any non-Clifford transversal gates [9]. All such gates can be interpreted as monodromies under a particular notion of parallel transport [10; Exam. 6.4.2].
Galois-qudit quantum RM code QRM\(_{d}(m)\) quantum codes are \(\mathcal{M}_{d}^{m}\) distillation codes of distance \(D=2\).
Group GKP code Group-GKP codes corresponding to the \(G^{k_1} \subseteq G^{ k_2} \subset G^{n}\) group construction admit \(X\)-type transversal Pauli gates representing \(G\) [11].
Heavy-hexagon code CNOT gates are transveral for this code. However, for most architectures, all logical gates would be implemented using lattice surgery methods.
Holographic code There exist holographic approximate codes with arbitrary transversal gate sets for any compact Lie group [12]. However, for sufficiently localized logical subsystems of holographic stabilizer codes, the set of transversally implementable logical operations is contained in the Clifford group [13].
Homological rotor code All generalized Pauli gates are realized transversally.
Hypergraph product (HGP) code Hadamard (up to logical SWAP gates) and control-\(Z\) on all logical qubits [14].
Kitaev surface code Transversal Pauli gates exist and are based on non-trivial loops on surface. Transversal Clifford gates can be done on folded surface codes [15].
Pastawski-Yoshida-Harlow-Preskill (HaPPY) code For locality-preserving physical gates on the boundary, the set of transversally implementable logical operations in the bulk is strictly contained in the Clifford group [13].
Qubit CSS code All CSS codes admit transversal Pauli and CNOT gates [16]. Self-dual CSS codes admit a transversal Hadamard, completing the Clifford group. A CSS code is doubly-even (triply-even) if all \(X\)-type stabilizer generators have weight divisible by four (eight); such codes yield a transversal \(S\) (\(T\)) gate [5].
Qubit stabilizer code All stabilizer codes realize Pauli transformations transversally; for a single logical qubit, these a realize dicyclic subgroup of \(SU(2)\). More generally, transversal logical gates are in a finite level of the Clifford hierarchy, which is shown using stabilizer disjointness [17] (see also [18,19]). Transversal gates for \(n\in\{1,2\}\) are semi-Clifford [20].
Single-spin code 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.
Surface-17 code Pauli gates, CNOT gate, and \(H\) gate (with relabeling).
Three-dimensional color code Universal transversal gates can be achieved using lattice surgery [21] or code deformation [22,23].
Triorthogonal code Admits transversal \(T\) gates [24] and the controlled-controlled-\(Z\) gate [25].
Two-dimensional color code Transversal CNOT can be implemented via braiding [23].
W-state code All logical gates can be implemented transversally. The logical unitary \(U_L\) can be performed with the physical unitary \(U_L\otimes U_L\otimes\cdots\otimes U_L\), where on the physical space \(U_L\) is taken to act trivially on \(\ket\perp\), i.e., \( U_L\ket\perp = \ket\perp\).
\(((7,2,3))\) permutation-invariant code Binary icosahedral group \(2I\) gates can be realized transversally [26].
\([[15, 7, 3]]\) Hamming-based CSS code Single-qubit Clifford operations applied transversally yield the corresponding Clifford gates on one of the logical qubits [27]. CNOT gate because it is a CSS code. Transversal CCZ gate [25].
\([[15,1,3]]\) quantum Reed-Muller code This code is the smallest qubit stabilizer code with a transversal gate outside of the Clifford group [28]. A transversal logical \(T^\dagger\) is implemented by applying a \(T\) gate on every qubit [29–31]. A subsystem version yields a transversal \(CCZ\) gate [25]. The code fails to have a transversal Hadamard gate; otherwise, it would violate the Eastin-Knill theorem.
\([[2^r-1, 1, 3]]\) quantum Reed-Muller code \(Z\)-rotation by angle \(-\pi/2^{r-1}\) [32]. These are the smallest qubit stabilizer codes with such a gate [28].
\([[2^r-1, 2^r-2r-1, 3]]\) Hamming-based CSS code Pauli, Hadamard, and CNOT gates.
\([[2^{2r-1}-1,1,2^r-1]]\) quantum punctured Reed-Muller code All single-qubit Clifford gates.
\([[2m,2m-2,2]]\) error-detecting code Transveral CNOT gates can be performed by first teleporting qubits into different code blocks [7].
\([[4,2,2]]\) CSS code Transversal Pauli, Hadamard, and two-qubit \(R\) [33]. A transversal \(CZ\) gate is realized by the rotation \(\sqrt{Z}\otimes\sqrt{Z}^{\dagger}\otimes\sqrt{Z}^{\dagger}\otimes\sqrt{Z}\). Adding \(XYZI\) to the stabilizer group produces a \([[4,1,2]]\) subcode that admits weight-two logical Pauli operations [34].
\([[7,1,3]]\) Steane code All single-qubit Clifford gates, which realize the \(2O\) binary octahedral subgroup of \(SU(2)\) [16,18].
\([[8,3,2]]\) CSS code CZ gates between any two logical qubits [35] and CCZ gate [35–37].
\([[k+4,k,2]]\) H code Hadamard and \(TXT^{\dagger}\) gates, with the latter Clifford-equivalent to Hadamard, and where \(T=\exp(i\pi(I-Z)/8)\) is the \(\pi/8\)-rotation gate.

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