Exponential logical-error reduction in quantum memories via optimal syndrome-measurement timing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06242v1
• Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:27:55 GMT
• Title: Exponential logical-error reduction in quantum memories via optimal syndrome-measurement timing
• Abstract summary: We show that the optimal syndrome-measurements interval scales inversely proportionally with the code distance.<n>For time-dependent idling noise, we develop an adaptive timing strategy that outperforms every fixed-interval protocol.<n>Our model predicts reductions in logical-error rates per unit time of up to $40%$.
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• Abstract: Syndrome-measurements timing is usually treated as a fixed clock cycle of a quantum error-correcting code. For quantum memories, however, the intra-measurement interval is itself an optimizable control parameter: measuring too rarely allows idling errors to accumulate, whereas measuring too often introduces measurement-induced faults. We propose a phenomenological logical-noise model for this trade-off and analytically show that the optimal syndrome-measurements interval scales inversely proportionally with the code distance and that this produces an exponential reduction of logical-error rates in the distance relative to constant-interval schedules. Furthermore, for time-dependent idling noise, we develop an adaptive timing strategy based on the measured syndrome activity that outperforms every fixed-interval protocol, with largest gains for short but strong noise bursts. Simulations of rotated surface-code memories with matching decoding validate the phenomenological model, the distance-dependent optimum, and the adaptive-strategy improvement. Moreover, with the experimental noise parameters reported by Google in Nature 638 (2025), our model predicts reductions in logical-error rates per unit time of up to $40\%$.

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