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Decoding surface code with a distributed neural network-based decoder

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Savvas Varsamopoulos *
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Koen Bertels
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Carmen G. Almudéver
DOI:10.1007/s42484-020-00015-9delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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There has been a rise in decoding quantum error correction codes with neural network-based decoders, due to the good decoding performance achieved and adaptability to any noise model. However, the main challenge is scalability to larger code distances due to an exponential increase of the error syndrome space. Note that successfully decoding the surface code under realistic noise assumptions will limit the size of the code to less than 100 qubits with current neural network-based decoders. Such a problem can be tackled by a distributed way of decoding, similar to the renormalization group (RG) decoders. In this paper, we introduce a decoding algorithm that combines the concept of RG decoding and neural network-based decoders. We tested the decoding performance under depolarizing noise with noiseless error syndrome measurements for the rotated surface code and compared against the blossom algorithm and a neural network-based decoder. We show that a similar level of decoding performance can be achieved between all tested decoders while providing a solution to the scalability issues of neural network-based decoders.
Keywords:
Quantum error correction
Quantum error detection
Surface code
Decoding
Artificial neural networks

Journal

Q
Quantum Machine Intelligence
IF:
4.4
Papers:
436
Citations:
796

Organization

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Delft University of Technology
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2.6W
Papers: 2.5W
Citations: 3.8W