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Reducing quantum error correction overhead using soft information

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Joonas Majaniemi *
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Elisha S. Matekole
DOI:10.1088/2058-9565/ae4e55delete
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Imperfect measurements are a prevalent source of error across quantum computing platforms, significantly degrading the logical error rates achievable on current hardware. To mitigate this issue, rich measurement data referred to as soft information has been proposed to efficiently identify and correct measurement errors as they occur. In this work, we model soft information decoding across a variety of physical qubit platforms and decoders and showcase how soft information can make error correction viable at lower code distances and higher physical error rates than is otherwise possible. We simulate the effects of soft information decoding on quantum memories for surface codes and bivariate bicycle codes, and evaluate the error suppression performance of soft decoders against traditional decoders. Our simulations show that soft information decoding on near-term devices can provide up to 11% higher error suppression on superconducting qubits and up to 20% stronger error suppression on neutral atom qubits. These accuracy gains correspond to 13% and 33% reductions in the physical qubit footprint of superconducting and neutral atom devices respectively when operating at a logical error rate of 10-6, showcasing that soft information is a powerful tool for reducing the cost and complexity of large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computers.
Keywords:
quantum error correction
soft information
decoding
superconducting qubits
neutral atom qubits

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Quantum Science and Technology cover
Quantum Science and Technology
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