Coherent versus stochastic error injection on a repetition-code logical qubit in superconducting hardware

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.07377v1
• Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:19:16 GMT
• Title: Coherent versus stochastic error injection on a repetition-code logical qubit in superconducting hardware
• Abstract summary: coherent and coherent noise have different effects when performing QEC with either surface or repetition codes.<n>We use the bitflip repetition code, realized in a transmon quantum processor, as a testbed to experimentally study the impact of injecting coherent errors on the logical performance.<n>We do not observe the difference in logical fidelity predicted by simulation for either the distance-3 or distance-5 repetition codes.
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• Abstract: The performance of quantum error correction (QEC) codes is limited by the underlying physical noise. Theoretical studies show that coherent and stochastic noise have different effects when performing QEC with either surface or repetition codes. We use the bitflip repetition code, realized in a transmon quantum processor, as a testbed to experimentally study the impact of injecting coherent versus stochastic errors on the logical performance. We adapt a scalable free-fermion simulator to simulate the experiments and we modify a subset sampling technique to efficiently sample stochastic noise in the quantum circuit. In the experiment, we do not observe the difference in logical fidelity predicted by simulation for either the distance-3 or distance-5 repetition codes. We hypothesize that this discrepancy could be explained by small drifts in qubit frequencies, which introduce phase-coherent noise that `stochastifies' the injected coherent errors. Our work contributes to advancing an understanding of how coherent errors affect experimental QEC.

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