Gauge color codes: Optimal transversal gates and gauge fixing in topological stabilizer codes

Hector Bombin Palomo

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Abstract

Color codes are topological stabilizer codes with unusual transversality properties. Here I show that their group of transversal gates is optimal and only depends on the spatial dimension, not the local geometry. I also introduce a generalized, subsystem version of color codes. In 3D they allow the transversal implementation of a universal set of gates by gauge fixing, while error-dectecting measurements involve only four or six qubits.

Original languageEnglish
Article number083002
JournalNew Journal of Physics
Volume17
Issue number8
ISSN1367-2630
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 3 Aug 2015

Keywords

  • gauge fixing
  • topological color code
  • topological stabilizer code
  • transversal gate

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