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This study investigates the 4.8.8 color code in a brickwork layout, identifying periodic superdense circuits that preserve full code distance while using fewer physical qubits than competing surface codes. Circuit-level simulations suggest these architectures offer favorable scaling for superconducting quantum processors under realistic noise conditions.
Denser Planar Color Codes
arXiv:2609.21376v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We consider the 4.8.8 color code in a brickwork layout on the square lattice with nearest-neighbor gates. We identify periodic superdense circuits with twelve CNOT layers that appear to preserve the full distance of these codes. Including ancillas, the family uses $q=(2d^2+5d-5)/2$ physical qubits for distance $d$: asymptotically $2/3$ as many as the triangular 6.6.6 color code and $1/2$ as many as the rotated surface code at the same code distance. Circuit-level simulations targeting superconducting architectures demonstrate favorable scaling of 4.8.8 color codes at plausible physical noise rates, including both for planar codes and their toroidal cousins under periodic boundary conditions.
Abstract:We consider the 4.8.8 color code in a brickwork layout on the square lattice with nearest-neighbor gates. We identify periodic superdense circuits with twelve CNOT layers that appear to preserve the full distance of these codes. Including ancillas, the family uses $q=(2d^2+5d-5)/2$ physical qubits for distance $d$: asymptotically $2/3$ as many as the triangular 6.6.6 color code and $1/2$ as many as the rotated surface code at the same code distance. Circuit-level simulations targeting superconducting architectures demonstrate favorable scaling of 4.8.8 color codes at plausible physical noise rates, including both for planar codes and their toroidal cousins under periodic boundary conditions.
arXiv:2609.21376 [quant-ph]
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