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Recursive Clifford noise reduction

Year: 2025
Type: preprint
Abstract: Clifford noise reduction (CliNR) is a partial error correction scheme that reduces the logical error rate of Clifford circuits at the cost of a modest qubit and gate overhead. The CliNR implementation of an $n$-qubit Clifford circuit of size $s$ achieves a vanishing logical error rate if $snp^2\rightarrow 0$ where $p$ is the physical error rate. Here, we propose a recursive version of CliNR that can reduce errors on larger circuits with a relatively small gate overhead. When $np \rightarrow 0$, the logical error rate can be vanishingly small. This implementation requires $\left(2\left\lceil \log(sp)\right\rceil+3\right)n+1$ qubits and at most $24 s \left\lceil(sp)^4\right\rceil $ gates. Using numerical simulations, we show that the recursive method can offer an advantage in a realistic near-term parameter regime. When circuit sizes are large enough, recursive CliNR can reach a lower logical error rate than the original CliNR with the same gate overhead. The results offer promise for reducing logical errors in large Clifford circuits with relatively small overheads.
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4416948212
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