Error Correction Properties of Covariant Bosonic Encodings

Abstract

Bosonic codes offer a promising approach towards hardware-efficient fault tolerance, with many leading examples such as the cat-code and the GKP code organized by an underlying symmetry. We build on a representation-theoretic framework of quantum error correction to formalize the construction and analysis of multimode symmetric bosonic codes, focusing on finite groups. Here, a physical, logical representation and an initial seed state together define the codewords via a covariant encoding. A central observation is that QEC matrices can be viewed as morphisms of group representations, so that Schur's lemma forces entire irreducible representations blocks to vanish. We recover several known single- and two-mode bosonic codes and build and analyze the error protection capabilities of three codes based on finite subgroups of SU(2). We analyze the impact of reducibility of the logical representation and optimize the seed state using the near-optimal fidelity.

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@misc{stamand2026error,
  title = {{Error Correction Properties of Covariant Bosonic Encodings}},
  author = {Frederic St-Amand and Jean-Philippe Burelle and Baptiste Royer},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.26660},
  eprint = {2609.26660},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.26660},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}

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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Error Correction Properties of Covariant Bosonic Encodings
AU  - Frederic St-Amand
AU  - Jean-Philippe Burelle
AU  - Baptiste Royer
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/22
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.26660
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.26660
AB  - Bosonic codes offer a promising approach towards hardware-efficient fault tolerance, with many leading examples such as the cat-code and the GKP code organized by an underlying symmetry. We build on a representation-theoretic framework of quantum error correction to formalize the construction and analysis of multimode symmetric bosonic codes, focusing on finite groups. Here, a physical, logical representation and an initial seed state together define the codewords via a covariant encoding. A central observation is that QEC matrices can be viewed as morphisms of group representations, so that Schur's lemma forces entire irreducible representations blocks to vanish. We recover several known single- and two-mode bosonic codes and build and analyze the error protection capabilities of three codes based on finite subgroups of SU(2). We analyze the impact of reducibility of the logical representation and optimize the seed state using the near-optimal fidelity.
ER  -

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