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Subsystem fault tolerance with the Bacon-Shor code

Panos Aliferis, Andrew W. Cross

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0610063

Abstract

We discuss how the presence of gauge sub-systems in the Bacon-Shor code [D. Bacon, Phys. Rev. A 73, 012340 (2006)] leads to remarkably simple and efficient methods for fault-tolerant error correction (FTEC). Most notably, FTEC does not require entangled ancillary states and it can be implemented with nearest-neighbor two-qubit measurements. By using these methods, we prove a lower bound on the quantum accuracy threshold, 1.94 × 10-4 for adversarial stochastic noise, that improves previous lower bounds by nearly an order of magnitude.

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