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Clifford-deformed zero-rate LDPC codes with 50% biased noise thresholds

Jagannath Das , Sayandip Dhara , Pedro Medina , Arthur Pesah , Arpit Dua This is my paper

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Clifford-deformed zero-rate LDPC codes achieve 50% thresholds under pure dephasing when biased logical operators scale slower than distance.

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The paper shows that zero-rate quantum LDPC codes admit Clifford deformations making the number of noise-biased logical operators grow slower than the code distance, or making a logical basis satisfy specific overlap scaling. When this holds, the code-capacity threshold against independent pure dephasing noise approaches 50 percent. A reader would care because dephasing dominates many physical qubit platforms, so a threshold near half the physical noise rate would let the code correct errors even when bias is extreme. The same scaling condition accounts for the known 50 percent thresholds of the XY surface code, XZZX surface code, color code, and certain three-dimensional examples. The authors then apply the construction to tile codes, recover analogous phase diagrams, and give translationally invariant deformations that reach the 50 percent mark with supporting finite-bias and circuit-level numerics.

Core claim

There exist Clifford-deformed variants of zero-rate quantum LDPC codes in which the number of biased logical operators scales slower than the distance, or a basis of logical operators satisfies certain overlap scaling conditions; in this case the code-capacity threshold under i.i.d. pure dephasing noise approaches 50 percent. This property explains the performance of the XY surface code, XZZX surface code, color code, and some 3D Clifford-deformed codes. For the tile codes of Ref. [1] the authors recover a phase diagram similar to that of deformed surface codes and construct several translationally invariant deformations that achieve the 50 percent threshold.

What carries the argument

Clifford deformation of a Pauli stabilizer code, which applies single-qubit Clifford unitaries to rotate local Pauli axes while leaving the stabilizers as Pauli operators, together with the scaling condition on the number or overlaps of biased logical operators.

If this is right

  • The code-capacity threshold under i.i.d. pure dephasing noise approaches 50 percent whenever the scaling condition on biased logical operators holds.
  • Clifford-deformed tile codes exhibit a phase diagram of 50 percent thresholds analogous to that of deformed surface codes.
  • Several translationally invariant Clifford deformations of the tile code achieve the 50 percent threshold.
  • Circuit-level performance of these codes is governed by the residual bias that remains after one full syndrome-extraction cycle.
  • Numerical simulations show improved logical error rates at finite bias and under circuit noise for the deformed tile codes.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same deformation strategy could be tested on other families of zero-rate or finite-rate LDPC codes to see whether 50 percent thresholds become generic.
  • Hardware-specific modeling of residual bias after syndrome extraction may let experimenters choose platforms that best preserve the high threshold.
  • If overlap scaling can be engineered without lowering the code rate, the construction may extend beyond zero-rate examples.
  • The link to phenomenological models suggests a systematic way to map circuit-level bias into effective code-capacity problems.

Load-bearing premise

A Clifford deformation must exist that preserves the Pauli form of the stabilizers while enforcing the required slower-than-distance scaling or overlap conditions on the logical operators.

What would settle it

A concrete counter-example would be a Clifford-deformed zero-rate LDPC code whose biased logical operators scale at least as fast as the distance and violate the overlap conditions, yet whose numerically computed code-capacity threshold under pure dephasing still reaches or exceeds 50 percent.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.15348 by Arpit Dua, Arthur Pesah, Jagannath Das, Pedro Medina, Sayandip Dhara.

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Applying single-qubit Clifford unitaries to a Pauli stabilizer code produces a Clifford-deformed variant whose stabilizers remain Pauli operators, but with locally rotated Pauli axes. Such deformations provide a simple way to tailor a fixed code to anisotropic noise, and have enabled unusually high thresholds under strongly biased dephasing. In this work, we discuss zero-rate quantum low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, for which there exist Clifford-deformed variants where the number of biased logical operators scales slower than the distance, or there exists a basis of logical operators whose overlap satisfies certain scaling conditions; in this case, the code-capacity threshold for the Clifford-deformed variant under i.i.d. pure dephasing noise approaches 50%. This property provably explains previously known code examples with 50% biased noise thresholds, such as XY surface code, XZZX surface code, color code, as well as some 3D Clifford-deformed codes. As a concrete new example, we study Clifford deformations of the tile codes of Ref. [1]. Similar to the phase diagram of 50% thresholds for random Clifford deformations of the surface code in Ref. [2], we find a similar phase diagram for the tile codes. We also construct several translationally invariant deformations of the tile code with 50% thresholds, and present numerical evidence for improved performance at finite bias and under circuit-level noise. In the circuit-level setting, performance is governed by the residual bias after a full syndrome-extraction cycle, linking our simulations to phenomenological models commonly used to study Clifford-deformed codes. We estimate this residual bias for different qubit platforms by modeling microscopic implementations of tile-code syndrome extraction.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper claims that Clifford deformations of zero-rate quantum LDPC codes can achieve code-capacity thresholds approaching 50% under i.i.d. pure dephasing noise when the number of biased logical operators scales slower than the distance or a logical basis satisfies specified overlap scaling conditions. This property is said to provably account for known high-threshold examples (XY surface code, XZZX surface code, color code, and some 3D codes). As a new concrete case, the authors examine Clifford deformations of tile codes, report a phase diagram analogous to that for surface codes, construct several translationally invariant deformations that numerically attain 50% thresholds, and present evidence of improved performance at finite bias and under circuit-level noise, with the latter tied to residual bias after syndrome extraction.

Significance. If the central claims hold, the work supplies a general criterion for engineering high biased-noise thresholds in zero-rate LDPC codes, extending surface-code results to a broader family of codes with potentially better scaling properties. The explicit construction of translationally invariant deformations and the connection between circuit-level simulations and phenomenological residual-bias models are concrete strengths that could guide experimental implementations on different qubit platforms.

major comments (2)
  1. [§4] §4 (tile-code deformations and numerical results): the reported 50% thresholds and phase diagram are obtained from finite-size simulations, yet the manuscript contains no explicit asymptotic verification that the number of biased logical operators remains o(d) or that a logical basis satisfies the required overlap scaling conditions as n→∞. Because the 50% threshold is derived from precisely these scaling properties, the absence of this check leaves the extrapolation for the new tile-code examples unsupported.
  2. [§3] Abstract and §3 (theoretical conditions): the statement that the scaling properties 'provably' yield a 50% threshold is asserted without a self-contained derivation or explicit reference to the equations that relate logical-operator weight/overlap statistics to the threshold under pure dephasing; this step is load-bearing for applying the criterion to general zero-rate LDPC codes beyond the previously known surface-code cases.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Introduction] The overlap scaling conditions are described qualitatively in the abstract and introduction; an explicit mathematical statement (e.g., an equation defining the required decay of pairwise overlaps) would improve clarity.
  2. Figure captions for the tile-code phase diagrams should state the system sizes used and the fitting procedure for threshold extraction to facilitate reproducibility.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their careful reading, positive assessment of the work's significance, and constructive major comments. We have revised the manuscript to strengthen the theoretical presentation in §3 and to provide additional analysis of the asymptotic scaling properties for the tile-code constructions in §4. Our point-by-point responses follow.

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  1. Referee: [§4] §4 (tile-code deformations and numerical results): the reported 50% thresholds and phase diagram are obtained from finite-size simulations, yet the manuscript contains no explicit asymptotic verification that the number of biased logical operators remains o(d) or that a logical basis satisfies the required overlap scaling conditions as n→∞. Because the 50% threshold is derived from precisely these scaling properties, the absence of this check leaves the extrapolation for the new tile-code examples unsupported.

    Authors: We agree that an explicit check of the scaling conditions strengthens the extrapolation. For the translationally invariant Clifford deformations of the tile codes that we construct and simulate, the underlying lattice structure permits an explicit enumeration of the logical operators. In the revised §4 we now include this enumeration, showing that the biased logical operators have weight linear in the distance d while their number remains o(d) in the large-system limit; the overlap conditions are likewise verified to hold. These analytic properties are consistent with the numerically observed 50% thresholds. For the random deformations we retain the finite-size phase diagram but add a finite-size scaling collapse that demonstrates the threshold approaching 50% with increasing n, again consistent with the o(d) criterion. A fully general proof for arbitrary random deformations lies outside the present scope, but the concrete constructions now satisfy the referee's request for verification. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3] Abstract and §3 (theoretical conditions): the statement that the scaling properties 'provably' yield a 50% threshold is asserted without a self-contained derivation or explicit reference to the equations that relate logical-operator weight/overlap statistics to the threshold under pure dephasing; this step is load-bearing for applying the criterion to general zero-rate LDPC codes beyond the previously known surface-code cases.

    Authors: We accept that the link between the scaling conditions and the 50% threshold should be derived explicitly rather than asserted. In the revised §3 we have inserted a self-contained derivation. Under i.i.d. pure dephasing, a Clifford deformation maps the noise to an effective Pauli channel whose bias is determined by the logical-operator weights. When the number of biased logical operators is o(d) (or a logical basis satisfies the stated overlap scaling), the minimum-weight decoding problem reduces to a classical biased repetition code whose error probability vanishes for physical dephasing rates below 50%. The key steps are now written out with explicit reference to the weight-distribution equations (newly numbered (3)–(5)) that connect the logical-operator statistics to the code-capacity threshold. This derivation is independent of the surface-code examples and applies directly to any zero-rate LDPC code satisfying the scaling hypotheses. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; sufficient condition stated independently of numerical results

full rationale

The paper explicitly states a sufficient condition (number of biased logical operators scaling slower than distance, or overlap scaling on a logical basis) under which the code-capacity threshold approaches 50% for Clifford-deformed zero-rate LDPC codes. This condition is presented as explaining known examples like the XY surface code and is then applied to tile-code deformations via separate numerical phase diagrams and simulations. No equation or claim reduces the threshold result to a fitted parameter or self-citation by construction; the numerical evidence for tile codes stands as an independent check rather than a redefinition of the scaling property. The derivation chain remains self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Based solely on the abstract, the work draws on prior definitions of tile codes, Clifford deformations, and zero-rate LDPC properties; no new free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are explicitly introduced or identifiable.

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