Streaming Belief Propagation on Mixed-Alphabet Tanner Graphs for Practical Quantum Memory
A preprint on arXiv presents a decoder using streaming belief propagation on mixed-alphabet Tanner graphs, aimed at quantum memories under circuit-level noise. The approach targets the rapid growth in possible error locations that comes from repeated syndrome measurements in practical quantum error correction.
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This streaming decoder could be trialled on existing quantum error correction testbeds to process syndrome data as it is generated, reducing the backlog that offline decoders face during longer memory experiments.
The method is designed for continuous processing at syndrome-generation rate; if implemented on control systems already used by superconducting or trapped-ion experiments, it could fit into near-term demonstrations without requiring new hardware.
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