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most citedQuantum Error Correction: An Introductory Guide

352 citations · 786 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

quant-ph2026

Graph Neural Post-selection for Quantum Error Correction

Conor Carty, Tamas Noszko, Joschka Roffe +1

Post-selection improves the logical reliability of quantum computation by rejecting shots which are likely to result in logical failure. We introduce graph neural networks that pre…

quant-ph2026

Efficiently simulable quantum circuits with large entanglement, magic, and non-Gaussianity via code-compiled tensor networks

Aydin Deger, Stergios Koutsioumpas, Mark Webster +3

We introduce a family of quantum circuits that possess standard indicators of classical simulation hardness including high entanglement entropy, magic, and non-Gaussianity, yet adm…

quant-ph2026

Nearest-neighbour gates are all you need: High-rate quantum low-density parity-check codes on a planar grid

Boren Gu, Tamas Noszko, Vincent Steffan +4

High-performance quantum low-density parity-check codes promise substantial reductions in the overhead of fault-tolerant quantum computation, but most constructions require long-ra…

quant-ph2026

QGPU: Parallel logic in quantum LDPC codes

Boren Gu, Andy Zeyi Liu, Armanda O. Quintavalle +3

Quantum error correction is critical to the design and manufacture of scalable quantum computing systems. Recently, there has been growing interest in quantum low-density parity-ch…

quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

Colour Codes Reach Surface Code Performance using Vibe Decoding

Stergios Koutsioumpas, Tamas Noszko, Hasan Sayginel +2

Two-dimensional quantum colour codes hold significant promise for quantum error correction, offering advantages such as planar connectivity and low overhead logical gates. Despite…

quant-ph2025

Logical accreditation: a framework for efficient certification of fault-tolerant computations

James Mills, Adithya Sireesh, Dominik Leichtle +2

As fault-tolerant quantum computers scale, certifying the accuracy of computations performed with encoded logical qubits will soon become classically intractable. This creates a cr…

quant-ph2025

Engineering CSS surgery: compiling any CNOT in any code

Clément Poirson, Joschka Roffe, Robert I. Booth

We introduce a framework for implementing logic in CSS quantum error correction codes, building on the surgery methods of Cowtan and Burton [CB24]. Our approach offers a systematic…

quant-ph2025

Hardware-tailored logical Clifford circuits for stabilizer codes

Eric J. Kuehnke, Kyano Levi, Joschka Roffe +2

Quantum error correction is the art of protecting fragile quantum information through suitable encoding and active interventions. After encoding logical qubits into physi…

quant-ph2025

Computing Efficiently in QLDPC Codes

Alexander J. Malcolm, Andrew N. Glaudell, Patricio Fuentes +10

It is the prevailing belief that quantum error correcting techniques will be required to build a utility-scale quantum computer able to perform computations that are out of reach o…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

An almost-linear time decoding algorithm for quantum LDPC codes under circuit-level noise

Antonio deMarti iOlius, Imanol Etxezarreta Martinez, Joschka Roffe +1

Fault-tolerant quantum computers must be designed in conjunction with classical co-processors that decode quantum error correction measurement information in real-time. In this wor…

quant-ph2024★ 28 cited

Localized statistics decoding for quantum low-density parity-check codes

Timo Hillmann, Lucas Berent, Armanda O. Quintavalle +3

Quantum low-density parity-check codes are a promising candidate for fault-tolerant quantum computing with considerably reduced overhead compared to the surface code. However, the…

quant-ph2024★ 3 cited

High-threshold, low-overhead and single-shot decodable fault-tolerant quantum memory

Thomas R. Scruby, Timo Hillmann, Joschka Roffe

We present a new family of quantum low-density parity-check codes, which we call radial codes, obtained from the lifted product of a specific subset of classical quasi-cyclic codes…

quant-ph2023★ 11 cited

Analog information decoding of bosonic quantum LDPC codes

Lucas Berent, Timo Hillmann, Jens Eisert +2

Quantum error correction is crucial for scalable quantum information processing applications. Traditional discrete-variable quantum codes that use multiple two-level systems to enc…

quant-ph2023★ 4 cited

The domain wall color code

Konstantin Tiurev, Arthur Pesah, Peter-Jan H. S. Derks +4

We introduce the domain wall color code, a new variant of the quantum error-correcting color code that exhibits exceptionally high code-capacity error thresholds for qubits subject…

quant-ph2022★ 23 cited

Correcting non-independent and non-identically distributed errors with surface codes

Konstantin Tiurev, Peter-Jan H. S. Derks, Joschka Roffe +2

A common approach to studying the performance of quantum error correcting codes is to assume independent and identically distributed single-qubit errors. However, the available exp…

quant-ph2022★ 41 cited

Bias-tailored quantum LDPC codes

Joschka Roffe, Lawrence Z. Cohen, Armanda O. Quintavalle +2

Bias-tailoring allows quantum error correction codes to exploit qubit noise asymmetry. Recently, it was shown that a modified form of the surface code, the XZZX code, exhibits cons…

quant-ph2020★ 65 cited

Single-shot error correction of three-dimensional homological product codes

Armanda O. Quintavalle, Michael Vasmer, Joschka Roffe +1

Single-shot error correction corrects data noise using only a single round of noisy measurements on the data qubits, removing the need for intensive measurement repetition. We intr…

quant-ph2020★ 186 cited

Decoding Across the Quantum LDPC Code Landscape

Joschka Roffe, David R. White, Simon Burton +1

We show that belief propagation combined with ordered statistics post-processing is a general decoder for quantum low density parity check codes constructed from the hypergraph pro…

quant-ph2019★ 352 cited

Quantum Error Correction: An Introductory Guide

Joschka Roffe

Quantum error correction protocols will play a central role in the realisation of quantum computing; the choice of error correction code will influence the full quantum computing s…

quant-ph2019★ 3 cited

Decoding quantum error correction with Ising model hardware

Joschka Roffe, Stefan Zohren, Dominic Horsman +1

Fault tolerant quantum computers will require efficient co-processors for real-time decoding of their adopted quantum error correction protocols. In this work we examine the possib…

quant-ph2018★ 5 cited

Quantum codes from classical graphical models

Joschka Roffe, Stefan Zohren, Dominic Horsman +1

We introduce a new graphical framework for designing quantum error correction codes based on classical principles. A key feature of this graphical language, over previous approache…

quant-ph2017★ 37 cited

Protecting quantum memories using coherent parity check codes

Joschka Roffe, David Headley, Nicholas Chancellor +2

Coherent parity check (CPC) codes are a new framework for the construction of quantum error correction codes that encode multiple qubits per logical block. CPC codes have a canonic…

quant-ph2016★ 24 cited

Graphical Structures for Design and Verification of Quantum Error Correction

Nicholas Chancellor, Aleks Kissinger, Joschka Roffe +2

We introduce a high-level graphical framework for designing and analysing quantum error correcting codes, centred on what we term the coherent parity check (CPC). The graphical for…