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Quantum Error Correction Fault Tolerance Quantum Simulation

A Symplectic Proof of the Quantum Singleton Bound

arXiv
Authors: Frederick Dehmel, Shilun Li

Year

2026

Paper ID

15759

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Preprint

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101

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Abstract

We present a symplectic linear-algebraic proof of the Quantum Singleton Bound for stabiliser quantum error-correcting codes together with a Lean4 formalisation of the linear-algebraic argument. The proof is formulated in the language of finite-dimensional symplectic vector spaces modelling Pauli operators and relies on distance-based erasure correctability and the cleaning lemma. Using a dimension-counting argument within the symplectic stabiliser framework, we derive the bound \( k + 2(d - 1) \le n \) for any [[n, k, d]] stabiliser code. This approach isolates the algebraic structure underlying the bound and avoids the heavier analytic machinery that appears in entropy-based proofs, while remaining well-suited to formal verification.

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