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most citedQuantum error correction below the surface code threshold

702 citations · 1.5k across the 33 of their papers we have counts for

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37 papers

quant-ph2026

Quantum Algorithms for OPI Variants Beyond Locality and Classical Decodability

Seyoon Ragavan, Noah Shutty

Regev's reduction quantumly finds codewords satisfying nonlinear constraints by decoding the dual code. To date, applications that have not been dequantized have relied on efficien…

quant-ph2026

Gibbs Sampling in the Shattered Phase by Decoded Quantum Interferometry

Leo Zhou, Noah Shutty, Mark Sellke +1

We apply Decoded Quantum Interferometry (DQI) to sample from the Gibbs measures of classical Ising spin Hamiltonians. We show that this Gibbs sampling problem reduces to a quantum…

quant-ph2026

Exponential quantum speedup for -Subset-Sum? Or, rigorous classical algorithms for Binary-Error LWE

Robin Kothari, Tony Metger, Ryan O'Donnell +2

We study vector subset sum over : given random vectors from , find a nonempty subset that sums to zero; the smaller , the more difficult it i…

quant-ph2026

Denser Planar Color Codes

Noah Shutty

We consider the 4.8.8 color code in a brickwork layout on the square lattice with nearest-neighbor gates. We identify periodic superdense circuits with twelve CNOT layers that appe…

quant-ph2026

Affine Filtering Measurements and Their Applications to Quantum Decoding

Avijit Mandal, Noah Shutty, Henry D. Pfister +1

Unambiguous state discrimination (USD) measurements are attractive because outcomes are either marked as conclusive (i.e., error free) or inconclusive (i.e., erased). We study affi…

quant-ph2026

Optimization Using Locally-Quantum Decoders

Noah Shutty, Avijit Mandal, Seyoon Ragavan +8

It was pointed out in [JSW+25] that widely-studied optimization problems such as D-regular max-k-XORSAT can be reduced to decoding of LDPC codes, using quantum algorithms related t…

quant-ph2026

Accelerating the Tesseract Decoder for Quantum Error Correction

Dragana Grbic, Laleh Aghababaie Beni, Noah Shutty

Quantum Error Correction (QEC) is essential for building robust, fault-tolerant quantum computers; however, the decoding process often presents a significant computational bottlene…

quant-ph2025

Magic state cultivation on a superconducting quantum processor

Emma Rosenfeld, Craig Gidney, Gabrielle Roberts +292

Fault-tolerant quantum computing requires a universal gate set, but the necessary non-Clifford gates represent a significant resource cost for most quantum error correction archite…

quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

A scalable and real-time neural decoder for topological quantum codes

Andrew W. Senior, Thomas Edlich, Francisco J. H. Heras +21

Fault-tolerant quantum computing will require error rates far below those achievable with physical qubits. Quantum error correction (QEC) bridges this gap, but depends on decoders…

quant-ph2025

Reinforcement Learning Control of Quantum Error Correction

Volodymyr Sivak, Alexis Morvan, Michael Broughton +296

Quantum error correction (QEC) is the primary strategy for protecting a quantum computer from the environment. Its prerequisite is that errors must remain sufficiently rare, which…

quant-ph2025

Quantum computation of molecular geometry via many-body nuclear spin echoes

C. Zhang, R. G. Cortiñas, A. H. Karamlou +320

Quantum-information-inspired experiments in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy may yield a pathway towards determining molecular structure and properties that are otherwise ch…

quant-ph2025

Verifiable Quantum Advantage via Optimized DQI Circuits

Tanuj Khattar, Noah Shutty, Craig Gidney +5

Decoded Quantum Interferometry (DQI) provides a framework for superpolynomial quantum speedups by reducing certain optimization problems to reversible decoding tasks. We apply DQI…

quant-ph2025

Hamiltonian Decoded Quantum Interferometry

Alexander Schmidhuber, Jonathan Z. Lu, Noah Shutty +3

We introduce Hamiltonian Decoded Quantum Interferometry (HDQI), a quantum algorithm that utilizes coherent Bell measurements and the symplectic representation of the Pauli group to…

quant-ph2025

Constructive interference at the edge of quantum ergodic dynamics

Dmitry A. Abanin, Rajeev Acharya, Laleh Aghababaie-Beni +262

Quantum observables in the form of few-point correlators are the key to characterizing the dynamics of quantum many-body systems. In dynamics with fast entanglement generation, qua…

quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

Tesseract: A Search-Based Decoder for Quantum Error Correction

Laleh Aghababaie Beni, Oscar Higgott, Noah Shutty

Tesseract is a Most-Likely Error decoder designed for low-density-parity-check quantum error-correcting codes. Tesseract conducts a search through a graph on the set of all subsets…

quant-ph2024★ 47 cited

Scaling and logic in the color code on a superconducting quantum processor

Nathan Lacroix, Alexandre Bourassa, Francisco J. H. Heras +212

Quantum error correction is essential for bridging the gap between the error rates of physical devices and the extremely low logical error rates required for quantum algorithms. Re…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Demonstrating dynamic surface codes

Alec Eickbusch, Matt McEwen, Volodymyr Sivak +204

A remarkable characteristic of quantum computing is the potential for reliable computation despite faulty qubits. This can be achieved through quantum error correction, which is ty…

quant-ph2024★ 7 cited

LUCI in the Surface Code with Dropouts

Dripto M. Debroy, Matt McEwen, Craig Gidney +2

Recently, usage of detecting regions facilitated the discovery of new circuits for fault-tolerantly implementing the surface code. Building on these ideas, we present LUCI, a frame…

quant-ph2024

Observation of disorder-free localization using a (2+1)D lattice gauge theory on a quantum processor

Gaurav Gyawali, Shashwat Kumar, Yuri D. Lensky +219

Disorder-induced phenomena in quantum many-body systems pose significant challenges for analytical methods and numerical simulations at relevant time and system scales. To reduce t…

quant-ph2024★ 6 cited

Magic state cultivation: growing T states as cheap as CNOT gates

Craig Gidney, Noah Shutty, Cody Jones

We refine ideas from Knill 1996, Jones 2016, Chamberland 2020, Gidney 2023+2024, Bombin 2024, and Hirano 2024 to efficiently prepare good states. We call our constructi…

quant-ph2024★ 27 cited

Visualizing Dynamics of Charges and Strings in (2+1)D Lattice Gauge Theories

Tyler A. Cochran, Bernhard Jobst, Eliott Rosenberg +189

Lattice gauge theories (LGTs) can be employed to understand a wide range of phenomena, from elementary particle scattering in high-energy physics to effective descriptions of many-…

quant-ph2024★ 702 cited

Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold

Rajeev Acharya, Laleh Aghababaie-Beni, Igor Aleiner +246

Quantum error correction provides a path to reach practical quantum computing by combining multiple physical qubits into a logical qubit, where the logical error rate is suppressed…

quant-ph2024★ 16 cited

Optimization by Decoded Quantum Interferometry

Stephen P. Jordan, Noah Shutty, Mary Wootters +6

Achieving superpolynomial speedups for optimization has long been a central goal for quantum algorithms. Here we introduce Decoded Quantum Interferometry (DQI), a quantum algorithm…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

Thermalization and Criticality on an Analog-Digital Quantum Simulator

Trond I. Andersen, Nikita Astrakhantsev, Amir H. Karamlou +224

Understanding how interacting particles approach thermal equilibrium is a major challenge of quantum simulators. Unlocking the full potential of such systems toward this goal requi…