Design Principles for Ultra-High-Rate Quantum Codes
A new arXiv preprint examines systematic design principles for ultra-high-rate quantum error-correcting codes, which have emerged as a route to reducing physical qubit overhead. Some recent constructions in this class need as few as two physical data qubits per logical qubit. The work aims to provide a framework for navigating the space of these codes rather than relying on isolated examples.
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This could enable experimental quantum computing groups to rapidly screen and adapt ultra-high-rate codes for their specific hardware noise models, testing logical qubits with much lower overhead than surface-code baselines.
Existing ultra-high-rate constructions already achieve overhead near two data qubits per logical qubit; a systematic framework would replace ad hoc searches, making it feasible to co-design high-rate codes with near-term hardware constraints within the next two years.
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