학술논문

Limitations on Transversal Gates for Hypergraph Product Codes
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on. 68(3):1772-1781 Mar, 2022
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Signal Processing and Analysis
Logic gates
Qubit
Product codes
Tensors
Quantum mechanics
Switches
Lattices
Computers and information processing
quantum computing
Language
ISSN
0018-9448
1557-9654
Abstract
In a fault tolerant quantum computer, quantum codes are expected to serve the conflicting purposes of protecting quantum information while also allowing that information to be manipulated by fault-tolerant gates. We introduce a new technique for placing limitations on such gates, and apply this technique to a class of quantum codes known as hypergraph product codes contained within the vertical sector. These codes are constructed from input which is a pair of classical linear codes, and generalize the Kitaev surface code which is the hypergraph product of classical repetition codes. We provide a necessary condition on these input codes, under which the resulting hypergraph product code has transversal gates limited to the Clifford group. We conjecture that this condition is satisfied by all $[n,k,d]$ Gallagher codes with $d\ge 3$ and $k\le n/2$ . This work is a generalization of an argument due to Bravyi and König, and we also conjecture this is a refinement of the recent notion of disjointness due to Jochym-O’Connor et al.