a: Principle to implement bodily qubits with the spatial modes of two entangled photons. And the experimental sample on every photon is illustrated in b. Experimental outcomes of the fault-tolerant circuits for the logical operation of single-qubit Hadamard gate are proven in c, and the outcomes for the logical operations contemplating a following two-qubit controlled-not gate are proven in d. Fp and fp represents the success output chances for the encoded circuit and non-encoded circuit, respectively. The fault-tolerant method is verified with Fp > fp. Credit: Kai Sun et al.
Dealing with experimental errors, which may happen in each step of quantum circuits, is of nice significance, particularly within the implementation of quantum computation. Generally talking, quantum error correction requires extra qubits to perform the correction operation.
However, the fault-tolerant methodology, wherein logical qubits are encoded with a number of bodily qubits and the error within the bodily house is allowable and isn’t anticipated to be corrected, supplies one other option to deal with the error by excluding the qubit with errors from the encoded house.
To be extra exact, based mostly on the identical {hardware}, logical qubits might be out put with a greater chance within the fault-tolerant encoded circuit than that within the non-encoded circuit when the error fee is beneath the edge. More importantly, the fault-tolerant circuit might be verified in a small system consisting of a number of qubits. And the edge—specific proof to help the success of fault-tolerant methodology—might be decided when evaluating the output chances of encoded circuits and non-encoded circuits.
In a brand new paper revealed in Light Science & Application, a staff of scientists, led by Professor Chuan-Feng Li from CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, have exploited the spatial modes of two entangled photons to assemble an experimental platform and have instantly noticed the fault-tolerant threshold for the investigated quantum circuits.
With the bodily qubits represented by coincident counts of the spatial modes of every photon, two logical qubits are encoded and manipulated via the corresponding operations on the bodily qubits. Importing the error fee artificially with a particularly excessive accuracy, we may scan the vary of error fee which covers the edge. When the success output chance of the encoded circuit is greater than that of the non-encoded circuit, we are able to affirm the precise worth of the edge, which is supported by the robust outcomes together with the single-qubit and two-qubit operations within the logical house.
Besides facilitating the investigation of fault-tolerant quantum computation in scalable techniques, this work is useful for different quantum data duties, akin to entanglement purification and long-distance quantum communication.
By observing the error fee threshold, we may perceive the element framework of fault-tolerant protocols and choose the success of fault-tolerant. The scientists summarize the efficiency of optical platform:
“We assemble the setup based mostly on the spatial modes of two photons which manifests the next benefits: (1) high-accuracy operation which is the inflexible requirement of fault-tolerant circuit; (2) straightforward to import the bogus error and regulate its fee; (3) current the straight sample of each step within the fault-tolerant course of; and (4) straightforward to implement the fault-tolerant encoded circuit and non-encoded circuit.”
“Besides the error sort thought-about on this work, different error fashions in a common fault-tolerant protocol might be investigated based mostly on this experimental platform. For instance, with extending the experimental platform based mostly on the optical spatial mode from single-photon framework to two-entangled-photon framework on this work, the nonlocal error impact might be additional investigated within the fault-tolerant quantum computation,” the scientists say.
Research staff takes essential step in quantum computing with error correction
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Kai Sun et al, Optical demonstration of quantum fault-tolerant threshold, Light: Science & Applications (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41377-022-00891-9
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