Coherent error threshold for surface codes from Majorana delocalization

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• Dr Jan Behrends, University of Cambridge (TCM)
• Monday 30 January 2023, 14:00-14:30
• Mott Seminar Room 531, Cavendish Laboratory.

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Statistical mechanics mappings provide key insights on quantum error correction. However, existing mappings assume incoherent noise, thus ignoring coherent errors due to, e.g., spurious gate rotations. We map the surface code with coherent errors, taken as X- or Z-rotations (replacing bit or phase flips), to a two-dimensional (2D) Ising model with complex couplings, and further to a 2D Majorana scattering network. Our mappings reveal both commonalities and qualitative differences in correcting coherent and incoherent errors. For both, the error-correcting phase maps, as we explicitly show by linking 2D networks to 1D fermions, to a Z2-nontrivial 2D insulator. However, beyond a rotation angle ϕc, instead of a Z2-trivial insulator as for incoherent errors, coherent errors map to a Majorana metal. This ϕc is the theoretically achievable storage threshold. We numerically find ϕc≈0.14π. The corresponding bit-flip rate sin^2(ϕc)≈0.18 exceeds the known incoherent threshold pth≈0.11.

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