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Paper 1

Avoiding coherent errors with rotated concatenated stabilizer codes

Yingkai Ouyang

Year

2020

Journal

arXiv preprint

DOI

arXiv:2010.00538

arXiv

2010.00538

Coherent errors, which arise from collective couplings, are a dominant form of noise in many realistic quantum systems, and are more damaging than oft considered stochastic errors. Here, we propose integrating stabilizer codes with constant-excitation codes by code concatenation. Namely, by concatenating an $[[n,k,d]]$ stabilizer outer code with dual-rail inner codes, we obtain a $[[2n,k,d]]$ constant-excitation code immune from coherent phase errors and also equivalent to a Pauli-rotated stabilizer code. When the stabilizer outer code is fault-tolerant, the constant-excitation code has a positive fault-tolerant threshold against stochastic errors. Setting the outer code as a four-qubit amplitude damping code yields an eight-qubit constant-excitation code that corrects a single amplitude damping error, and we analyze this code's potential as a quantum memory.

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Paper 2

Co-existence of states in quantum systems

Yoritaka Iwata

Year

2014

Journal

arXiv preprint

DOI

arXiv:1407.7081

arXiv

1407.7081

Co-existence of different states is a profound concept, which possibly underlies the phase transition and the symmetry breaking. Because of a property inherent to quantum mechanics (cf. uncertainty), the co-existence is expected to appear more naturally in quantum-microscopic systems than in macroscopic systems. In this paper a mathematical theory describing co-existence of states in quantum systems is presented, and the co-existence is classified into 9 types.

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