Optimal correction of concatenated fault-tolerant quantum codes

Authors:
Z. W. Evans;A. M. Stephens
Affiliations:
School of Physics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 3010;School of Physics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 3010 and National Institute of Informatics, Chiyoda-ku, Japan 101-8430
Venue:
Quantum Information Processing
Year:
2012

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Abstract

We present a method of concatenated quantum error correction in which improved classical processing is used with existing quantum codes and fault-tolerant circuits to more reliably correct errors. Rather than correcting each level of a concatenated code independently, our method uses information about the likelihood of errors having occurred at lower levels to maximize the probability of correctly interpreting error syndromes. Results of simulations of our method applied to the [[4,1,2]] subsystem code indicate that it can correct a number of discrete errors up to half of the distance of the concatenated code, which is optimal.