• DocumentCode
    2440171
  • Title

    Topological color codes over higher alphabet

  • Author

    Sarvepalli, Pradeep

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys. & Astron., Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    Aug. 30 2010-Sept. 3 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • Abstract
    Color codes are a class of topological codes that have come into prominence in the recent years. Like the surface codes the codespace defined by them can be associated to the degenerate ground state of a local Hamiltonian. In addition they can be designed to have an extended set of transversal encoded gates (compared to surface codes) increasing their appeal for fault tolerant quantum computation. In this paper we generalize the color codes to arbitrary prime power alphabet. We show that in the 2D case there exist color codes for which the nonbinary Clifford group can be implemented transversally.
  • Keywords
    codes; fault tolerance; quantum communication; fault tolerant quantum computation; ground state; higher alphabet; local Hamiltonian; nonbinary Clifford group; surface codes; topological color codes; transversal encoded gates; Color; Equations; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Generators; Logic gates; Quantum computing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Theory Workshop (ITW), 2010 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Dublin
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8262-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8263-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CIG.2010.5592860
  • Filename
    5592860