Coded Clifford Measurements for Multiqubit Magic-State Cultivation

Abstract:Magic-state cultivation suppresses errors by measuring logical Clifford symmetries and discarding inconsistent outcomes. For an entangled resource several branches are accepted, so the retained branch carries a multibit classical record whose corruption produces a logical-frame error. We show that this record layer is exactly a binary linear code. For any third-level Clifford-hierarchy unitary $U \in \mathcal{C}_3$, the branches $UZ(a)|+\rangle^{\otimes k}$ are resolved by commuting Hermitian Clifford observables $C(v) = UX(v)U^{\dagger}$, so a measurement schedule is a generator matrix and postselection on valid records gives $P_{\mathrm{wv}} = O(q^{d})$ at record distance $d$. A Plotkin bound then limits every binary record, linear or not. The physically realizable Clifford family already saturates it: at distance four, six logical measurements suffice for $|CS\rangle$ and seven for $|CCZ\rangle$, against eight and twelve for independent repetition. Restricting to fault-tolerantly measurable parities therefore costs nothing in record length. The saving survives compilation: in a native-CZZ-assisted Steane realization the $[6,2,4]$ CS schedule is the unique minimum-cost distance-four solution, reducing the cultivation core by 26.6\% in active locations, and exact state-vector simulation without a final ideal code-space projection confirms higher acceptance and roughly half the residual Steane-boundary weight. Coding thus reduces logical redundancy and compiled overhead together.

arXiv:2609.09994 [quant-ph]

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