Cleaner magic states with hook injection

Abstract

In this paper, I show how an intentional hook error mechanism can be used as a control knob for injecting magic states into surface codes. The limitation, and benefit, of this approach is that it can only inject states in the XY or YZ plane of the Bloch sphere. This increases fidelity, because perturbations out of the target plane can be detected as errors. I use Monte Carlo sampling to show that this technique outperforms previous injection techniques, achieving lower error rates at smaller spacetime cost under digitized circuit noise.