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Climbing the Clifford Hierarchy
Luca Bastioni, Samuel Glandon, Tefjol Pllaha, Madison Stewart, Phillip Waitkevich
- Year
- 2026
- Journal
- arXiv preprint
- DOI
- arXiv:2603.12088
- arXiv
- 2603.12088
The Clifford Hierarchy has been a central topic in quantum computation due to its strong connections with fault-tolerant quantum computation, magic state distillation, and more. Nevertheless, only sections of the hierarchy are fully understood, such as diagonal gates and third level gates. The diagonal part of the hierarchy can be climbed by taking square roots and adding controls. Similarly, square roots of Pauli gates (first level) are Clifford gates (climb to the second level). Based on this theme, we study gates whose square roots climb to the next level. In particular, we fully characterize Clifford gates whose square roots climb to the third level.
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Qubit-oscillator concatenated codes: decoding formalism & code comparison
Yijia Xu, Yixu Wang, En-Jui Kuo, Victor V. Albert
- Year
- 2022
- Journal
- arXiv preprint
- DOI
- arXiv:2209.04573
- arXiv
- 2209.04573
Concatenating bosonic error-correcting codes with qubit codes can substantially boost the error-correcting power of the original qubit codes. It is not clear how to concatenate optimally, given there are several bosonic codes and concatenation schemes to choose from, including the recently discovered GKP-stabilizer codes [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 080503 (2020)}] that allow protection of a logical bosonic mode from fluctuations of the mode's conjugate variables. We develop efficient maximum-likelihood decoders for and analyze the performance of three different concatenations of codes taken from the following set: qubit stabilizer codes, analog/Gaussian stabilizer codes, GKP codes, and GKP-stabilizer codes. We benchmark decoder performance against additive Gaussian white noise, corroborating our numerics with analytical calculations. We observe that the concatenation involving GKP-stabilizer codes outperforms the more conventional concatenation of a qubit stabilizer code with a GKP code in some cases. We also propose a GKP-stabilizer code that suppresses fluctuations in both conjugate variables without extra quadrature squeezing, and formulate qudit versions of GKP-stabilizer codes.
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