Boundaries for the Honeycomb Code

Jeongwan Haah; Matthew B. Hastings

doi:10.22331/q-2022-04-21-693

Boundaries for the Honeycomb Code

Jeongwan Haah¹ and Matthew B. Hastings^1,2

¹Microsoft Quantum and Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA 98052, USA
²Station Q, Microsoft Quantum, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6105, USA

Published:	2022-04-21, volume 6, page 693
Eprint:	arXiv:2110.09545v2
Doi:	https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2022-04-21-693
Citation:	Quantum 6, 693 (2022).

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Abstract

We introduce a simple construction of boundary conditions for the honeycomb code [1] that uses only pairwise checks and allows parallelogram geometries at the cost of modifying the bulk measurement sequence. We discuss small instances of the code.

► BibTeX data

@article{Haah2022boundarieshoneycomb,
  doi = {10.22331/q-2022-04-21-693},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2022-04-21-693},
  title = {Boundaries for the {H}oneycomb {C}ode},
  author = {Haah, Jeongwan and Hastings, Matthew B.},
  journal = {{Quantum}},
  issn = {2521-327X},
  publisher = {{Verein zur F{\"{o}}rderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften}},
  volume = {6},
  pages = {693},
  month = apr,
  year = {2022}
}

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