Coupled-Layer Codes: Beyond Quantum Product Constructions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10069v1
• Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:00:01 GMT
• Title: Coupled-Layer Codes: Beyond Quantum Product Constructions
• Abstract summary: Product codes are an important class of quantum error-correcting codes constructed from multiple input codes.<n>We show how coupled-layer codes reproduce the X-cube and Chamon models.<n>In particular, we show how balancing by a ZX-duality can reproduce non-CSS codes such as the fermionic toric code and the 3-fermion Walker-Wang model in 3D.
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• Abstract: Product codes are an important class of quantum error-correcting codes constructed from multiple input codes, which can give rise to asymptotically good quantum low-density parity check codes. In previous work, we showed how the product between two codes can be physically implemented by coupling layers of the first code using checks of the second code. In this work, we further unify product code constructions with coupled-layer constructions of phases of matter by introducing coupled-layer codes. The essential strategy is to condense general excitations created by Pauli operators among multiple decoupled layers of the first code. The condensation is specified by an excitation algebra, which encodes the excitations, along with an algebra-preserving map. This coupling between layers generalizes the notion of gauging in physics as well as the mapping cone in homological algebra, and can be used to produce non-CSS codes. As examples, we show how coupled-layer codes reproduce the X-cube and Chamon models. We further generalize the balanced product code by allowing a unitary transformation in addition to a group action by free permutation and describe its corresponding coupled-layer construction. In particular, we show how balancing by a ZX-duality can reproduce non-CSS codes such as the fermionic toric code and the 3-fermion Walker-Wang model in 3D.

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