Subsystem Fault Tolerance with the Bacon-Shor Code
- 31 May 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 98 (22), 220502
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.98.220502
Abstract
We discuss how the presence of gauge subsystems in the Bacon-Shor code [D. Bacon , Phys. Rev. A 73, 012340 (2006)] leads to remarkably simple and efficient methods for fault-tolerant error correction (FTEC). Most notably, FTEC does not require entangled ancillary states, and it can be implemented with nearest-neighbor two-qubit measurements. By using these methods, we prove a lower bound on the quantum accuracy threshold, for adversarial stochastic noise, that improves previous lower bounds by nearly an order of magnitude.
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