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most citedSpanning Tree Matching Decoder for Quantum Surface Codes

7 citations · 15 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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quant-ph2026

Benchmarking the computational power of quantum computers

Timothy Proctor, Oliver Hart, Oliver Widzowski Maupin +27

Quantum computing hardware is advancing rapidly toward utility-scale machines that will enable scientific breakthroughs. Many teams are pursuing distinct and difficult-to-compare r…

quant-ph2026

Performance Limits of Fault-Tolerant Quantum Error Correction Schemes

Lorenzo Valentini, Diego Forlivesi, Marco Chiani

Quantum error correction (QEC) is essential for realizing scalable quantum computation. However, when evaluating its benefits, most analyses assume idealized components, overlookin…

quant-ph2026

Fault-Tolerant Cut-Cat State Syndrome Extraction for Quantum Codes

Diego Forlivesi, Lorenzo Valentini, Marco Chiani

Reliable quantum computation requires fault-tolerant protocols to prevent errors from propagating during syndrome extraction in quantum error correction. We present a novel fault-t…

quant-ph2026

Dimensioning of Quantum Memories for Distilled Quantum EPR Packets

Lorenzo Valentini, Diego Forlivesi, Andrea Talarico +1

The quantum Internet envisions a network where information is transmitted through entanglement, with Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) pairs serving as one of the fundamental carriers.…

quant-ph2025

Restart Belief: A General Quantum LDPC Decoder

Lorenzo Valentini, Diego Forlivesi, Andrea Talarico +1

Hardware-friendly quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) decoders are commonly built upon belief propagation (BP) processing. Yet, quantum degeneracy often prevents BP from achie…

quant-ph2025

Flag at origin: a modular fault-tolerant preparation for CSS codes

Diego Forlivesi, David Amaro

Fault-tolerant (FT) preparation of diverse logical stabilizer states in quantum error-correcting (QEC) codes is essential for FT computation. Existing constructions of these FT cir…

quant-ph2025

Bubble Clustering Decoder for Quantum Topological Codes

Diego Forlivesi, Lorenzo Valentini, Marco Chiani

Quantum computers are highly vulnerable to noise, necessitating the use of error-correcting codes to protect stored data. Errors must be continuously corrected over time to counter…

quant-ph2025

Cylindrical and Möbius Quantum Codes for Asymmetric Pauli Errors

Lorenzo Valentini, Diego Forlivesi, Marco Chiani

In the implementation of quantum information systems, one type of Pauli error, such as phase-flip errors, may occur more frequently than others, like bit-flip errors. For this reas…

quant-ph2024★ 5 cited

Quantum codes for asymmetric channels: ZZZY surface codes

Diego Forlivesi, Lorenzo Valentini, Marco Chiani

We introduce surface ZZZY codes, a novel family of quantum error-correcting codes designed for asymmetric channels. Derived from standard surface codes through tailored modificatio…

quant-ph2024★ 7 cited

Spanning Tree Matching Decoder for Quantum Surface Codes

Diego Forlivesi, Lorenzo Valentini, Marco Chiani

We introduce the spanning tree matching (STM) decoder for surface codes, which guarantees the error correction capability up to the code's designed distance by first employing an i…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Logical Error Rates of XZZX and Rotated Quantum Surface Codes

Diego Forlivesi, Lorenzo Valentini, Marco Chiani

Surface codes are versatile quantum error-correcting codes known for their planar geometry, making them ideal for practical implementations. While the original proposal used Pauli…

quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

Performance Analysis of Quantum CSS Error-Correcting Codes via MacWilliams Identities

Diego Forlivesi, Lorenzo Valentini, Marco Chiani

We analyze the performance of quantum stabilizer codes, one of the most important classes for practical implementations, on both symmetric and asymmetric quantum channels. To this…

quant-ph2023

Performance Analysis of Quantum Error-Correcting Surface Codes over Asymmetric Channels

Lorenzo Valentini, Diego Forlivesi, Marco Chiani

One of the main challenge for an efficient implementation of quantum information technologies is how to counteract quantum noise. Quantum error correcting codes are therefore of pr…