Enhanced noise resilience of the surface-GKP code via designed bias

Abstract

We study the code obtained by concatenating the standard single-mode Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) code with the surface code. We show that the noise tolerance of this surface-GKP code with respect to (Gaussian) displacement errors improves when a single-mode squeezing unitary is applied to each mode assuming that the identification of quadratures with logical Pauli operators is suitably modified. We observe noise-tolerance thresholds of up to $\sigma \approx 0.58$ shift-error standard deviation when the surface code is decoded without using GKP syndrome information. In contrast, prior results by Fukui et al. and Vuillot et al. report a threshold between $\sigma \approx 0.54$ and $\sigma \approx 0.55$ for the standard (toric-, respectively) surface-GKP code. The modified surface-GKP code effectively renders the mode-level physical noise asymmetric, biasing the logical-level noise on the GKP-qubits. The code can thus benefit from the resilience of the surface code against biased noise. We use the approximate maximum likelihood decoding algorithm of Bravyi et al. to obtain our threshold estimates. Throughout, we consider an idealized scenario where measurements are noiseless and GKP states are ideal. Our work demonstrates that Gaussian encodings of individual modes can enhance concatenated codes.

30 pages, 12 figures

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