International Workshop on Quantum LDPC Codes

15 talks

July 14, 2014 - July 16, 2014

C14029

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DescriptionInternational Workshop on Quantum LDPC Codes

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An introduction to quantum LDPC code

David Poulin Université de Sherbrooke

July 14, 2014

PIRSA:14070000
Overview of the theory of spin glasses and its applications to quantum codes

Hidetoshi Nishimori Tokyo Institute of Technology

July 14, 2014

PIRSA:14070001
Maximum likelihood decoding threshold as a phase transition

Leonid Pryadko University of California, Riverside

July 14, 2014

PIRSA:14070002
Spin glass reflection of the decoding transition for space-time codes

Alexey Kovalev University of California, Riverside

July 14, 2014

PIRSA:14070003
Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation with Constant Overhead

Daniel Gottesman University of Maryland, College Park

July 14, 2014

PIRSA:14070004
Quantum Error Correction for Ising Anyon Systems

July 14, 2014

PIRSA:14070005
Quantum computing by color-code lattice surgery

Andrew Landahl University of New Mexico

July 15, 2014

PIRSA:14070006
Injectivity radius bounds on the minimum distance of quantum LDPC codes

July 15, 2014

PIRSA:14070007
Quantum codes – from experimental realizations to quantum foundations

Robert Raussendorf Leibniz University Hannover

July 15, 2014

PIRSA:14070008
TBA

John Preskill California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Division of Physics Mathematics & Astronomy

July 15, 2014

PIRSA:14070009
Is scalable quantum error correction realistic? Some projects, thoughts and open questions.

Barbara Terhal Delft University of Technology

July 15, 2014

PIRSA:14070010
Gauge color codes

Hector Bombin PsiQuantum Corp.

July 16, 2014

PIRSA:14070012

An introduction to quantum LDPC code

David Poulin Université de Sherbrooke

July 14, 2014

PIRSA:14070000

In this talk, I will cover some basic notions of quantum LDPC codes, focusing on the similarities and distinctions with their classical cousins. Topics will include definitions of stabilizer quantum LDPC codes (CSS and general), iterative decoding algorithms, dual spin models, and obstructions caused by error degeneracy. The talk will be informal and a good occasion to ask questions.
Overview of the theory of spin glasses and its applications to quantum codes

Hidetoshi Nishimori Tokyo Institute of Technology

July 14, 2014

PIRSA:14070001

I will review the theory of spin glasses with an emphasis on gauge symmetry. A number of exact results will be shown to be derived, some of which are useful to discuss the properties of quantum LDPC codes. Also will be explained is the combination of gauge symmetry, replica method, and duality argument to predict the precise location of a multicritical point, which is equivalent to the error-tolerance limit of toric code.
Maximum likelihood decoding threshold as a phase transition

Leonid Pryadko University of California, Riverside

July 14, 2014

PIRSA:14070002

In maximum likelihood (ML) decoding, we are trying to find the most likely error given the measured syndrome. While this is hardly ever practical, such a decoder is expected to have the highest threshold.
I will discuss the mapping between the ML threshold for an infinite family of stabilizer codes and a phase transition in an associated family of Ising models with bond disorder [1]. This is a generalization of the map between the toric codes and the square lattice Ising model. Quantum LDPC codes produce generally non-local spin models with few-body interactions. A relatively simple Monte Carlo simulation of such a model can give an upper bound on the decoding threshold for the original code family. This can be used to compare code families irrespectively of decoders, and to establish an absolute measure of decoder performance.

[1] A. A. Kovalev and L. P. Pryadko, "Spin glass reflection of the decoding transition for quantum error correcting codes," unpublished,
arXiv:1311.7688 (2013).
Spin glass reflection of the decoding transition for space-time codes

Alexey Kovalev University of California, Riverside

July 14, 2014

PIRSA:14070003

We introduce space-time quantum code construction which is based on repeating the layers of an arbitrary quantum error correcting code. The error threshold of such space-time construction is shown to be related to the fault tolerant error threshold of the original quantum error correcting code in the presence of errors in syndrome measurements. The decoding transition for space-time codes can be further mapped to random-bond Wegner spin models.
Families of quantum low density parity-check (LDPC) codes with a finite decoding threshold lead to both known models (e.g., random bond Ising and random plaquette Z2 gauge models) as well as unexplored earlier and generally non-local disordered spin models with non-trivial phase diagrams that include the spin glass phase.
We apply this construction to the simplest examples of recently discovered hypergraph-product codes and numerically find the fault tolerant threshold in excess of 5% by employing Monte-Carlo simulations.
Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation with Constant Overhead

Daniel Gottesman University of Maryland, College Park

July 14, 2014

PIRSA:14070004

The threshold theorem for fault tolerance tells us that it is possible to build arbitrarily large reliable quantum computers provided the error rate per physical gate or time step is below some threshold value. Most research on the threshold theorem so far has gone into optimizing the tolerable error rate under various assumptions, with other considerations being secondary. However, for the foreseeable future, the number of qubits may be an even greater restriction than error rates. The overhead, the ratio of physical qubits to logical qubits, determines how expensive (in qubits) a fault-tolerant computation is. Earlier results on fault tolerance used a large overhead which grows (albeit slowly) with the size of the computation. I show that using quantum LDPC codes, it is possible in principle to do fault-tolerant quantum computation with low overhead, and with the overhead constant in the size of the computation.
Quantum Error Correction for Ising Anyon Systems

July 14, 2014

PIRSA:14070005

We consider two-dimensional lattice models that support Ising anyonic excitations and are coupled to a thermal bath, and we propose a phenomenological model to describe the resulting short-time dynamics, including pair-creation, hopping, braiding, and fusion of anyons. By explicitly constructing topological quantum error-correcting codes for this class of system, we use our thermalization model to estimate the lifetime of quantum information stored in the code space. To decode and correct errors in these codes, we adapt several existing topological decoders to the non-Abelian setting: one based on Edmond's perfect matching algorithm and one based on the renormalization group. These decoders provably run in polynomial time, and one of them has a provable threshold against a simple iid noise model. Using numerical simulations, we find that the error correction thresholds for these codes/decoders are comparable to similar values for the toric code (an Abelian sub-model consisting of a restricted set of allowed anyons). To our knowledge, these are the first threshold results for quantum codes without explicit Pauli algebraic structure. Joint work with Courtney Brell, Simon Burton, Guillaum Dauphinais, and David Poulin, arXiv:1311.0019.
Quantum computing by color-code lattice surgery

Andrew Landahl University of New Mexico

July 15, 2014

PIRSA:14070006

In this talk, I will explain how to use lattice surgery to enact a universal set of fault-tolerant quantum operations with color codes. Along the way, I will also show how to improve existing surface-code lattice-surgery methods. Lattice-surgery methods use fewer qubits and the same time or less than associated defect-braiding methods. Per code distance, color-code lattice surgery uses approximately half the qubits and the same time or less than surface-code lattice surgery. Color-code lattice surgery can also implement the Hadamard and phase gates in a single transversal step—much faster than surface-code lattice surgery can. I will show that against uncorrelated circuit-level depolarizing noise, color-code lattice surgery uses fewer qubits to achieve the same degree of fault-tolerant error suppression as surface-code lattice-surgery when the noise rate is low enough and the error suppression demand is high enough.
Injectivity radius bounds on the minimum distance of quantum LDPC codes

July 15, 2014

PIRSA:14070007

Only a rare number of constructions of quantum LDPC codes are equipped with an unbounded minimum distance. Most of them are inspired by Kitaev toric codes constructed from the a tiling of the torus such as, color codes which are based on 3-colored tilings of surfaces, hyperbolic codes which are defined from hyperbolic tilings, or codes based on higher dimensional manifolds. These constructions are based on tilings of surfaces or manifolds and their parameters depend on the homology of the tiling.

In the first part of this talk, we recall homological bounds on the parameters of these quantum LDPC codes. In particular, the injectivity radius of the tiling provides a general lower bound on the minimum distance of these quantum LDPC codes.

Then, we extend the injectivity radius method to bound the minimum distance of a family of quantum LDPC codes based on Cayley graphs.
Finally, we improve these results by studying a notion of expansion of these Cayley graphs.

This talk is based on a joint work with Alain Couvreur and Gilles Zémor, and a joint work with Zhentao Li and Stephan Tommassé.
Quantum codes – from experimental realizations to quantum foundations

Robert Raussendorf Leibniz University Hannover

July 15, 2014

PIRSA:14070008

This talk is divided into two parts. In the first part, I discuss a scheme of fault-tolerant quantum computation for a web-like physical architecture of a quantum computer. Small logical units of a few qubits (realized in ion traps, for example) are linked via a photonic interconnect which provides probabilistic heralded Bell pairs [1]. Two time scales compete in this system, namely the characteristic decoherence time T_D and the typical time T_E it takes to provide a Bell pair. We show that, perhaps unexpectedly, this system can be used for fault-tolerant quantum computation for all values of the ratio T_D/T_E.

The second part of my talk is about something entirely different, namely the role of contextuality in quantum computation by magic state distillation. Recently, Howard et al. [2] have shown that contextuality is a necessary resource for such computation on qudits of odd prime dimension. Here we provide an analogous result for 2-level systems.
However, we require them to be rebits. [joint work with Jake Bian, Philippe Guerin and Nicolas Delfosse]

[1] C. Monroe, R. Raussendorf, A. Ruthven, K. R. Brown, P. Maunz4, L.-M.
Duan, and J. Kim, , Phys Rev A 89, 22317 (2014).

[2] Mark Howard, Joel Wallman, Victor Veitch & Joseph Emerson, Nature
doi:10.1038/nature13460 (2014).
TBA

John Preskill California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Division of Physics Mathematics & Astronomy

July 15, 2014

PIRSA:14070009
Is scalable quantum error correction realistic? Some projects, thoughts and open questions.

Barbara Terhal Delft University of Technology

July 15, 2014

PIRSA:14070010
Gauge color codes

Hector Bombin PsiQuantum Corp.

July 16, 2014

PIRSA:14070012

I will describe a new class of topological quantum error correcting codes with surprising features. The constructions is based on color codes: it preserves their unusual transversality properties but removes important drawbacks. In 3D, the new codes allow the effectively transversal implementation of a universal set of gates by gauge fixing, while error-dectecting measurements involve only 4 or 6 qubits. Furthermore, they do not require multiple rounds of error detection to achieve fault-tolerance.

Title	Speaker(s)	Date	Talk Type	Info
An introduction to quantum LDPC code	David Poulin	2014-07-14	Conference	View details
Overview of the theory of spin glasses and its applications to quantum codes	Hidetoshi Nishimori	2014-07-14	Conference	View details
Maximum likelihood decoding threshold as a phase transition	Leonid Pryadko	2014-07-14	Conference	View details
Spin glass reflection of the decoding transition for space-time codes	Alexey Kovalev	2014-07-14	Conference	View details
Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation with Constant Overhead	Daniel Gottesman	2014-07-14	Conference	View details
Quantum Error Correction for Ising Anyon Systems		2014-07-14	Conference	View details
Quantum computing by color-code lattice surgery	Andrew Landahl	2014-07-15	Conference	View details
Injectivity radius bounds on the minimum distance of quantum LDPC codes		2014-07-15	Conference	View details
Quantum codes – from experimental realizations to quantum foundations	Robert Raussendorf	2014-07-15	Conference	View details
TBA	John Preskill	2014-07-15	Conference	View details
Is scalable quantum error correction realistic? Some projects, thoughts and open questions.	Barbara Terhal	2014-07-15	Conference	View details
Gauge color codes	Hector Bombin	2014-07-16	Conference	View details

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