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General Approach to Error Detection of Bosonic Codes via Phase Estimation
Yuan-De Jin1,2, Shi-Yu Zhang3, Ulrik L Andersen4
1Institute of Semiconductors, State Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Physics and Chip Technologies, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China.
Abstract:
We present a general approach to error detection of bosonic quantum error-correction codes via an adaptive quantum phase estimation algorithm assisted by a single ancilla qubit. The approach is applicable to a broad class of bosonic codes whose error syndromes are described by symmetry or stabilizer operators, including the rotation-symmetric codes and Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) codes. The detection precision scales inversely with the total evolution time and thus reaches the Heisenberg limit. We numerically demonstrate the approach for several examples, such as detecting bosonic excitation loss errors in high-order cat or binomial codes and displacement errors in finite-energy GKP codes. We also extend the approach to efficiently generate arbitrary Fock states. Our schemes are feasible in present-day experiments.
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