Noise-resilient sequential circuits for generating quantum order
Abstract
Sequential circuits provide an optimal linear-depth route to unitarily preparing long-range ordered quantum states, but circuit-level noise can be far more damaging than noise applied after preparation: local errors may be propagated by subsequent gates into nonlocal defects that destroy the target order. In this work, we present classes of unitary sequential circuits that prepare certain non-trivial orders in the presence of Pauli noise. Our constructions exploit the spatial structure of the syndromes of the target state, which in certain cases allows us to systematically suppress the propagation of errors using strictly local gates. The strategy can be applied both to symmetry-breaking order, for which we present a 3D example, and to topological order, which we showcase on a 4D version of the toric code. We also highlight how this stability against errors necessitates non-Clifford gates, and how measurement-feedback loops can be used to stabilize lower-dimensional states as well.
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BibTeX
@misc{gattinger2026noiseresilient,
title = {{Noise-resilient sequential circuits for generating quantum order}},
author = {Konstantin Gattinger and Julian Boesl and Max McGinley and Michael Knap and Frank Pollmann},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.13383},
eprint = {2609.13383},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13383},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Noise-resilient sequential circuits for generating quantum order
AU - Konstantin Gattinger
AU - Julian Boesl
AU - Max McGinley
AU - Michael Knap
AU - Frank Pollmann
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/11
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.13383
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13383
AB - Sequential circuits provide an optimal linear-depth route to unitarily preparing long-range ordered quantum states, but circuit-level noise can be far more damaging than noise applied after preparation: local errors may be propagated by subsequent gates into nonlocal defects that destroy the target order. In this work, we present classes of unitary sequential circuits that prepare certain non-trivial orders in the presence of Pauli noise. Our constructions exploit the spatial structure of the syndromes of the target state, which in certain cases allows us to systematically suppress the propagation of errors using strictly local gates. The strategy can be applied both to symmetry-breaking order, for which we present a 3D example, and to topological order, which we showcase on a 4D version of the toric code. We also highlight how this stability against errors necessitates non-Clifford gates, and how measurement-feedback loops can be used to stabilize lower-dimensional states as well.
ER -