TY  - JOUR
AV  - public
TI  - Fast decoders for qudit topological codes
SN  - 1367-2630
Y1  - 2014/06/17/
ID  - discovery1417667
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/16/6/063038
EP  - 37
N2  - Qudit toric codes are a natural higher-dimensional generalization of the well-studied qubit toric code. However, standard methods for error correction of the qubit toric code are not applicable to them. Novel decoders are needed. In this paper we introduce two renormalization group decoders for qudit codes and analyse their error correction thresholds and efficiency. The first decoder is a generalization of a 'hard-decisions' decoder due to Bravyi and Haah (arXiv:1112.3252). We modify this decoder to overcome a percolation effect which limits its threshold performance for many-level quantum systems. The second decoder is a generalization of a 'soft-decisions' decoder due to Poulin and Duclos-Cianci (2010 Phys. Rev. Lett. 104 050504), with a small cell size to optimize the efficiency of implementation in the high dimensional case. In each case, we estimate thresholds for the uncorrelated bit-flip error model and provide a comparative analysis of the performance of both these approaches to error correction of qudit toric codes.
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VL  - 16
KW  - Topological error correcting codes
KW  -  toric code
KW  -  qudits
KW  -  thresholds
KW  -  renormalization group decoders
KW  -  Tolerant Quantum Computation
KW  -  Error-correction
KW  -  Gauge-theory
KW  -  Memory
JF  - New Journal of Physics
PB  - IOP PUBLISHING LTD
A1  - Anwar, H
A1  - Brown, BJ
A1  - Campbell, ET
A1  - Browne, DE
ER  -