A High-Performance List Decoding Algorithm for Surface Codes with Erroneous Syndrome

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06979v2
• Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 06:08:02 GMT
• Title: A High-Performance List Decoding Algorithm for Surface Codes with Erroneous Syndrome
• Authors: Jifan Liang, Qianfan Wang, Lvzhou Li, Xiao Ma,
• Abstract summary: We propose a high-performance list decoding algorithm for surface codes with erroneous syndromes. We first use belief propagation (BP) decoding for pre-processing with syndrome soft information, followed by ordered statistics decoding (OSD) for post-processing to list and recover both qubits and syndromes.
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• Abstract: Quantum error-correcting codes (QECCs) are necessary for fault-tolerant quantum computation. Surface codes are a class of topological QECCs that have attracted significant attention due to their exceptional error-correcting capabilities and easy implementation. In the decoding process of surface codes, the syndromes are crucial for error correction, however, they are not always correctly measured. Most of the existing decoding algorithms for surface codes need extra measurements to correct syndromes with errors, which implies a potential increase in inference complexity and decoding latency. In this paper, we propose a high-performance list decoding algorithm for surface codes with erroneous syndromes, where syndrome soft information is incorporated in the decoding, allowing qubits and syndrome to be recovered without needing extra measurements. Precisely, we first use belief propagation (BP) decoding for pre-processing with syndrome soft information, followed by ordered statistics decoding (OSD) for post-processing to list and recover both qubits and syndromes. Numerical results demonstrate that our proposed algorithm efficiently recovers erroneous syndromes and significantly improves the decoding performance of surface codes with erroneous syndromes compared to minimum-weight perfect matching (MWPM), BP and original BP-OSD algorithms.

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