Passive quantum error correction of photon loss at breakeven

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19794v1
• Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:28:27 GMT
• Title: Passive quantum error correction of photon loss at breakeven
• Authors: Shruti Shirol, Sean van Geldern, Hanzhe Xi, Chen Wang,
• Abstract summary: We demonstrate a steady-state driven dissipative quantum system, composed of a superconducting cavity and a transmon ancilla, that preserves a logical qubit beyond the photon-lifetime limit by about 5%.<n>This realization of continuous quantum error correction at the breakeven point highlights the quantitative competitiveness of passive correction strategies.
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• Abstract: Physical qubits in a quantum computer are often represented by superposition states of single particles or excitations. Decay of the excitation itself is a fundamental error channel that is difficult to overcome via external drive or control techniques. Quantum error correcting codes, which encode information in superpositions involving multiple excitations, provide a path to preserve information beyond the capacity of individual excitations, but typically require exquisite active operations on the system. Here, we demonstrate a steady-state driven dissipative quantum system, composed of a superconducting cavity and a transmon ancilla, that preserves a logical qubit beyond the photon-lifetime limit by about 5% using a binomial encoding. This realization of continuous quantum error correction at the breakeven point highlights the quantitative competitiveness of passive correction strategies while circumventing some demanding hardware requirements of its active counterparts.

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