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most citedBlueprint for a Scalable Photonic Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer

296 citations · 655 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

quant-ph2026

Chutes and Ladders: Dynamical Automorphisms via the ZX-Calculus

Alexander Frei, Sascha Zakaib-Bernier, Zachary Mann +2

The ZX-calculus is a powerful graphical language for manipulating quantum circuits, which has recently found many applications in quantum error correction. We extend this language…

quant-ph2026

Simplified circuit-level decoding using Knill error correction

Ewan Murphy, Subhayan Sahu, Michael Vasmer

Quantum error correction will likely be essential for building a large-scale quantum computer, but it comes with significant requirements at the level of classical control software…

quant-ph2025

Fault-tolerant transformations of spacetime codes

Arthur Pesah, Austin K. Daniel, Ilan Tzitrin +1

Recent advances in quantum error-correction (QEC) have shown that it is often beneficial to understand fault-tolerance as a dynamical process, a circuit with redundant measurements…

quant-ph2025

Scalable Simulation of Fermionic Encoding Performance on Noisy Quantum Computers

Emiliia Dyrenkova, Raymond Laflamme, Michael Vasmer

A compelling application of quantum computers with thousands of qubits is quantum simulation. Simulating fermionic systems is both a problem with clear real-world applications and…

quant-ph2025

Quasiprobabilistic imaginary-time evolution on quantum computers

Annie Ray, Esha Swaroop, Ningping Cao +2

Imaginary-time evolution plays an important role in algorithms for computing ground-state and thermal equilibrium properties of quantum systems, but can be challenging to simulate…

quant-ph2024

Unified and Generalized Approach to Entanglement-Assisted Quantum Error Correction

Priya J. Nadkarni, Serge Adonsou, Guillaume Dauphinais +2

We introduce a framework for entanglement-assisted quantum error correcting codes that unifies the three original frameworks for such codes called EAQEC, EAOQEC, and EACQ under a s…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

Single-shot and measurement-based quantum error correction via fault complexes

Timo Hillmann, Guillaume Dauphinais, Ilan Tzitrin +1

Photonics provides a viable path to a scalable fault-tolerant quantum computer. The natural framework for this platform is measurement-based quantum computation, where fault-tolera…

quant-ph2024★ 9 cited

Linear-optical quantum computation with arbitrary error-correcting codes

Blayney W. Walshe, Ben Q. Baragiola, Hugo Ferretti +11

High-rate quantum error correcting codes mitigate the imposing scale of fault-tolerant quantum computers but require efficient generation of non-local, many-body entanglement. We p…

quant-ph2024★ 9 cited

Weight Reduced Stabilizer Codes with Lower Overhead

Eric Sabo, Lane G. Gunderman, Benjamin Ide +2

Stabilizer codes are the most widely studied class of quantum error-correcting codes and form the basis of most proposals for a fault-tolerant quantum computer. A stabilizer code i…

quant-ph2023★ 11 cited

Implementing fault-tolerant non-Clifford gates using the [[8,3,2]] color code

Daniel Honciuc Menendez, Annie Ray, Michael Vasmer

Quantum computers promise to solve problems that are intractable for classical computers, but qubits are vulnerable to many sources of error, limiting the depth of the circuits tha…

quant-ph2023★ 7 cited

Graphical CSS Code Transformation Using ZX Calculus

Jiaxin Huang, Sarah Meng Li, Lia Yeh +3

In this work, we present a generic approach to transform CSS codes by building upon their equivalence to phase-free ZX diagrams. Using the ZX calculus, we demonstrate diagrammatic…

quant-ph2023★ 12 cited

Lifting topological codes: Three-dimensional subsystem codes from two-dimensional anyon models

Jacob C. Bridgeman, Aleksander Kubica, Michael Vasmer

Topological subsystem codes in three spatial dimensions allow for quantum error correction with no time overhead, even in the presence of measurement noise. The physical origins of…

quant-ph2023★ 7 cited

Stabilizer Formalism for Operator Algebra Quantum Error Correction

Guillaume Dauphinais, David W. Kribs, Michael Vasmer

We introduce a stabilizer formalism for the general quantum error correction framework called operator algebra quantum error correction (OAQEC), which generalizes Gottesman's formu…

quant-ph2022★ 20 cited

Tailoring three-dimensional topological codes for biased noise

Eric Huang, Arthur Pesah, Christopher T. Chubb +2

Tailored topological stabilizer codes in two dimensions have been shown to exhibit high storage threshold error rates and improved subthreshold performance under biased Pauli noise…

quant-ph2022★ 38 cited

Partitioning qubits in hypergraph product codes to implement logical gates

Armanda O. Quintavalle, Paul Webster, Michael Vasmer

The promise of high-rate low-density parity check (LDPC) codes to substantially reduce the overhead of fault-tolerant quantum computation depends on constructing efficient, fault-t…

quant-ph2022★ 5 cited

Non-Pauli Errors in the Three-Dimensional Surface Code

Thomas R. Scruby, Michael Vasmer, Dan E. Browne

A powerful feature of stabiliser error correcting codes is the fact that stabiliser measurement projects arbitrary errors to Pauli errors, greatly simplifying the physical error co…

quant-ph2021★ 32 cited

Morphing quantum codes

Michael Vasmer, Aleksander Kubica

We introduce a morphing procedure that can be used to generate new quantum codes from existing quantum codes. In particular, we morph the 15-qubit Reed-Muller code to obtain a $[\!…

quant-ph2021★ 2 cited

Single-shot quantum error correction with the three-dimensional subsystem toric code

Aleksander Kubica, Michael Vasmer

We introduce a new topological quantum code, the three-dimensional subsystem toric code (3D STC), which is a generalization of the stabilizer toric code. The 3D STC can be realized…

quant-ph2020★ 26 cited

Universal Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing with Stabiliser Codes

Paul Webster, Michael Vasmer, Thomas R. Scruby +1

The quantum logic gates used in the design of a quantum computer should be both universal, meaning arbitrary quantum computations can be performed, and fault-tolerant, meaning the…

quant-ph2020★ 296 cited

Blueprint for a Scalable Photonic Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer

J. Eli Bourassa, Rafael N. Alexander, Michael Vasmer +10

Photonics is the platform of choice to build a modular, easy-to-network quantum computer operating at room temperature. However, no concrete architecture has been presented so far…

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★ 34 cited

Cellular automaton decoders for topological quantum codes with noisy measurements and beyond

Michael Vasmer, Dan E. Browne, Aleksander Kubica

We propose an error correction procedure based on a cellular automaton, the sweep rule, which is applicable to a broad range of codes beyond topological quantum codes. For simplici…

quant-ph2019★ 1 cited

Machine learning logical gates for quantum error correction

Hongxiang Chen, Michael Vasmer, Nikolas P. Breuckmann +1

Quantum error correcting codes protect quantum computation from errors caused by decoherence and other noise. Here we study the problem of designing logical operations for quantum…

quant-ph2018★ 77 cited

Three-dimensional surface codes: Transversal gates and fault-tolerant architectures

Michael Vasmer, Dan E. Browne

One of the leading quantum computing architectures is based on the two-dimensional (2D) surface code. This code has many advantageous properties such as a high error threshold and…