Halma: a routing-based technique for defect mitigation in quantum error correction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.21000v1
• Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2024 15:09:53 GMT
• Title: Halma: a routing-based technique for defect mitigation in quantum error correction
• Abstract summary: We introduce Halma, a defect mitigation technique empowered by an expanded native gate set.<n>Halma effectively mitigates ancilla qubit defects during surface code stabilizer measurements.
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• Abstract: As quantum chips scale up for large-scale computation, hardware defects become inevitable and must be carefully addressed. In this work, we introduce Halma, a defect mitigation technique empowered by an expanded native gate set that incorporates the iSWAP gate alongside the conventional CNOT gate, both commonly available on many superconducting processors. Halma effectively mitigates ancilla qubit defects during surface code stabilizer measurements, enhancing the robustness and reliability of quantum computation. Halma introduces zero reduction in the spacelike distance of the code, leading to effective preservation of encoded logical information. Meanwhile, it does not further sacrifice the timelike distance, which enables efficient logical operations on surface code patches. Under a realistic physical noise level of $10^{-3}$, Halma achieves a logical error rate that is only $\sim1.5\times$ that of the defect-free code when handling a single ancilla qubit defect on a small-distance surface code. In comparison to previous defect-handling methods, Halma provides a $\sim10\times$ improvement in the average logical error rate of distance-11 surface codes with a defect rate of 2%, and a $\sim3\times$ reduction in the teraquop footprint, that is, the number of physical qubits required to reach a logical error rate of $10^{-12}$. Generally speaking, Halma can be viewed as an additional equipment in the toolbox of defect mitigation, or an upgrade patch, as it is directly compatible with most of the existing superstabilizer-based approaches in handling data qubit defects and defect clusters. Halma not only significantly eases the near-term realization of fault-tolerant quantum computing on hardware with fabrication defects, but also exemplifies how leveraging intrinsic hardware capabilities can enhance quantum hardware performance, particularly in the context of quantum error correction.

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