Spectral Codes: A Geometric Formalism for Quantum Error Correction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19765v1
• Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:27:31 GMT
• Title: Spectral Codes: A Geometric Formalism for Quantum Error Correction
• Authors: Satoshi Kanno, Yoshi-aki Shimada,
• Abstract summary: We present a new geometric perspective on quantum error correction based on spectral triples in noncommutative geometry.<n>We show that leakage out of the code space is controlled by the spectral gap of the Dirac operator.
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• Abstract: We present a new geometric perspective on quantum error correction based on spectral triples in noncommutative geometry. In this approach, quantum error correcting codes are reformulated as low energy spectral projections of Dirac type operators that separate global logical degrees of freedom from local, correctable errors. Locality, code distance, and the Knill Laflamme condition acquire a unified spectral and geometric interpretation in terms of the induced metric and spectrum of the Dirac operator. Within this framework, a wide range of known error correcting codes including classical linear codes, stabilizer codes, GKP type codes, and topological codes are recovered from a single construction. This demonstrates that classical and quantum codes can be organized within a common geometric language. A central advantage of the spectral triple perspective is that the performance of error correction can be directly related to spectral properties. We show that leakage out of the code space is controlled by the spectral gap of the Dirac operator, and that code preserving internal perturbations can systematically increase this gap without altering the encoded logical subspace. This yields a geometric mechanism for enhancing error correction thresholds, which we illustrate explicitly for a stabilizer code. We further interpret Berezin Toeplitz quantization as a mixed spectral code and briefly discuss implications for holographic quantum error correction. Overall, our results suggest that quantum error correction can be viewed as a universal low energy phenomenon governed by spectral geometry.

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