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Paper 1

Floquet circuits inspired by holographic matrix models

Yun Ma, Andrew Lucas

Year
2026
Journal
arXiv preprint
DOI
arXiv:2603.26874
arXiv
2603.26874

We argue that near-term experiments with neutral atoms in movable optical tweezers can simulate circuits that mimic the Trotterized time-evolution of simple matrix models in quantum mechanics. As a cartoon of this proposal, we study Floquet Clifford circuits which exhibit a number of signatures of fast scrambling. One such illustration is a simplified Hayden-Preskill recovery protocol, in which stabilizer quantum error correction replaces postselection.

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Paper 2

Majorana-XYZ subsystem code

Tobias Busse, Lauri Toikka

Year
2026
Journal
arXiv preprint
DOI
arXiv:2603.26311
arXiv
2603.26311

We present a new type of a quantum error correction code, termed Majorana-XYZ code, where the logical quantum information scales macroscopically yet is protected by topologically non-trivial degrees of freedom. It is a $[n,k,g,d]$ subsystem code with $n=L^2$ physical qubits, $k= \lfloor L/2 \rfloor$ logical qubits, $g \sim L^2$ gauge qubits, and distance $d = L$. The physical check operations, i.e. the measurements needed to obtain the error syndrome, are $3$-local and nearest-neighbour. The code detects every 1- and 2-qubit error, and every error of weight 3 and higher (constrained by the distance) that is not a product of the 3-qubit check operations, however, these products act only on the gauge qubits leaving the code space invariant. The undetected weight-3 and higher operators are confined to the gauge group and do not affect logical information. While the code does not have local stabiliser generators, the logical qubits cannot be modified locally by an undetectable error, and in this sense the Majorana-XYZ code combines notions of both topological and local gauge codes while providing a macroscopic number of topological logical qubits. Taken as a non-gauge stabiliser code we can encode $k \sim L^2 - 3L$ logical qubits into $L^2$ physical qubits; however, the check operators then become weight $2L$. The code is derived from an experimentally promising system of Majorana fermions on the honeycomb lattice with only nearest-neighbour interactions.

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