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Paper 1

Decoding Schemes for Foliated Sparse Quantum Error Correcting Codes

A. Bolt, D. Poulin, T. M. Stace

Year
2018
Journal
arXiv preprint
DOI
arXiv:1810.11572
arXiv
1810.11572

Foliated quantum codes are a resource for fault-tolerant measurement-based quantum error correction for quantum repeaters and for quantum computation. They represent a general approach to integrating a range of possible quantum error correcting codes into larger fault-tolerant networks. Here we present an efficient heuristic decoding scheme for foliated quantum codes, based on message passing between primal and dual code 'sheets'. We test this decoder on two different families of sparse quantum error correcting code: turbo codes and bicycle codes, and show reasonably high numerical performance thresholds. We also present a construction schedule for building such code states.

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Paper 2

Fast surgery for quantum LDPC codes

Nouédyn Baspin, Lucas Berent, Lawrence Z. Cohen

Year
2025
Journal
arXiv preprint
DOI
arXiv:2510.04521
arXiv
2510.04521

Quantum LDPC codes promise significant reductions in physical qubit overhead compared with topological codes. However, many existing constructions for performing logical operations come with distance-dependent temporal overheads. We introduce a scheme for performing generalized surgery on quantum LDPC codes using a constant number of rounds of syndrome measurement. The merged code in our scheme is constructed by taking the total complex of the base code and a suitably chosen homomorphic chain complex. We demonstrate the applicability of our scheme on an example multi-cycle code and assess the performance under a phenomenological noise model, showing that fast surgery performs comparably to standard generalized surgery with multiple rounds. Our results pave the way towards fault-tolerant quantum computing with LDPC codes with both low spatial and temporal overheads.

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