Pipelined correlated minimum weight perfect matching of the surface code

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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2023

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Mcode

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Quantum, Volume 7

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We describe a pipeline approach to decoding the surface code using minimum weight perfect matching, including taking into account correlations between detection events. An independent no-communication parallelizable processing stage reweights the graph according to likely correlations, followed by another no-communication parallelizable stage for high confidence matching. A later general stage finishes the matching. This is a simplification of previous correlated matching techniques which required a complex interaction between general matching and re-weighting the graph. Despite this simplification, which gives correlated matching a better chance of achieving real-time processing, we find the logical error rate practically unchanged. We validate the new algorithm on the fully fault-tolerant toric, unrotated, and rotated surface codes, all with standard depolarizing noise. We expect these techniques to be applicable to a wide range of other decoders.

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Funding Information: AP was supported by Google Faculty Research Awards and a Fulbright Senior Researcher Fellowship.

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Paler, A & Fowler, A G 2023, ' Pipelined correlated minimum weight perfect matching of the surface code ', Quantum, vol. 7, 1205 . https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2023-12-12-1205