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arxiv: 2605.21898 · v1 · pith:FRMJMAEOnew · submitted 2026-05-21 · 🪐 quant-ph

Concatenating Algebraic Codes over High-Rate Quantum LDPC Codes

Adam Wills , Michael E. Beverland , Lev S. Bishop , Jay M. Gambetta , Patrick Rall , Vikesh Siddhu , Andrew W. Cross This is my paper

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keywords quantum error correctioncode concatenationLDPC codesReed-Solomon codesGalois quditsfault-tolerant syndrome extractionteraquop regime
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Treating high-rate LDPC blocks as logical Galois qudits lets quantum Reed-Solomon codes reach the teraquop regime at lower space cost than prior gross-code constructions.

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This paper examines concatenating algebraic outer codes with high-rate inner quantum LDPC codes to balance overhead, error suppression, and connectivity. The key step is modeling each inner code block as one logical Galois qudit so that correlated errors inside the block become ordinary errors on a higher-dimensional object. This modeling permits the use of quantum Reed-Solomon outer codes, which come with strong parameters and list decoders, together with a time-like Reed-Solomon scheme that protects syndrome extraction against measurement errors. At uniform physical noise of 10^{-3} the resulting memory system enters the teraquop regime with less space overhead than the 288-qubit two-gross code while also simplifying several engineering requirements. The authors indicate that the same Galois-qudit and list-decoding ideas should transfer to other high-rate quantum architectures.

Core claim

By representing each gross-code block as a single logical Galois qudit and protecting its syndrome extraction with a time-like Reed-Solomon code, the concatenated system reaches the teraquop regime at 10^{-3} physical noise with lower space overhead than the 288-qubit two-gross code. Optimizations include refined bicycle-instruction error rates, new compilation strategies, and decoder post-selection rules. A lightweight fault-tolerance scheme that would fail for qubits succeeds for these large-alphabet qudits.

What carries the argument

Treating each high-rate quantum LDPC code block as one logical Galois qudit, which converts intra-block correlated errors into ordinary errors on an algebraic object and thereby enables concatenation with list-decodable Reed-Solomon outer codes.

If this is right

  • The concatenated gross code enters the teraquop regime at 10^{-3} noise where earlier two-gross constructions did not.
  • Space overhead is lower than that of the 288-qubit two-gross code at the same noise level.
  • The protocol supplies several engineering advantages including relaxed connectivity demands.
  • A lightweight fault-tolerance scheme works for large-alphabet qudits even though it would fail for ordinary qubits.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The Galois-qudit perspective may simplify fault-tolerance analysis for other high-rate LDPC families that currently suffer from strong intra-block correlations.
  • List decoding of the outer algebraic code could be combined with existing inner-code decoders to improve overall performance in a wider range of concatenated architectures.
  • If the lightweight qudit fault-tolerance scheme generalizes, it could lower the measurement overhead required for syndrome extraction in future high-dimensional quantum codes.

Load-bearing premise

Modeling each LDPC block as a single Galois qudit plus the time-like Reed-Solomon protection for syndrome extraction is enough to suppress correlated errors without introducing new dominant failure modes.

What would settle it

A simulation or hardware run that measures the total qubit count and logical error rate of the concatenated gross code at uniform 10^{-3} noise and checks whether both the teraquop threshold and the claimed overhead reduction relative to the 288-qubit two-gross code are achieved.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.21898 by Adam Wills, Andrew W. Cross, Jay M. Gambetta, Lev S. Bishop, Michael E. Beverland, Patrick Rall, Vikesh Siddhu.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: The space overheads of various systems, allowing a maximum size of half a million physical qubits. Concatenation allows the gross code to work in the teraquop regime relevant for the execution of many large-scale quantum algorithms. There, it offers an improved space overhead versus the two-gross code, with several engineering benefits. We show the surface code, as well as the “yoked” (concatenated) surfac… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: An overview of the moving parts of the construction and analysis. Blue text is hyperlinked. 5 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: This figure illustrates the key technical idea of packaging the logical information in one gross code into a higher-dimensional qudit. The first logical qubit, the pivot, is sacrificed to enable the logical operations required to operate the memory. The 11 non-pivot logical qubits become one larger 2 11-dimensional qudit. Outer Code Fault-Tolerant Syndrome Extraction To operate these outer codes using logi… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: The left-hand figure illustrates our global memory system. 2 rows of the system are sacri￾ficed for the fault-tolerant generation of the cat states used for syndrome extraction of neighbouring outer codeblocks. These ancillary blocks move through the system over the course of time to extract the syndrome of other codeblocks. On the right, we illustrate a Z error affecting an outer codeblock, labelled by so… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Depiction of the fault-tolerant preparation and verification of the qudit cat state for n = 8 and R = 1. Every wire denotes a qudit, which may be imagined as the s non-pivot qubits of a cat state row gross code. The circuit proceeds via an initial non-fault-tolerant preparation, and then R rounds of fault-tolerant checking. Each set of n − 1 measurements can be executed in two “layers”. In this diagram, al… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: The fault-tolerant Z αZ β qudit measurement sub-routine acts on two cat state row qudits/gross codes (the first and fourth wires on the right-hand side), using the adjacent two an￾cilla row qudits/gross codes (the second and third wires) as ancillas. All operations depicted are qudit operations, in particular, boxes denote the measurement of the qudit operator by which they are labelled. Again, boxes witho… view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: The compilation of the measurement Z vZ v , where v ∈ F s 2 , on the s non-pivot qubits in adjacent gross code modules. The pivot qubits in each module are used as ancillas. The measurement of Z vZ v on the two groups of s qubits may be inferred via the XOR of the three Z-type measurements on the right-hand side. Note that the X-type measurements are measurement projections, that is, measurements followed … view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: The space overheads of various systems at 10−3 physical noise. All systems are chosen with the optimal configuration while keeping their size below 500, 000 physical qubits. The space overhead of the concatenated gross code memory crosses over that of the two-gross code at a logical error rate of 4.10 × 10−15 per logical qubit-round. outer code distances than d = 9 could become useful if one allowed larger… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Further information on the performance of the concatenated gross code system at 10−3 physical noise. The left-hand panel shows the places where outer codes of various distances are used in the optimal system, and the right-hand panel shows the places where the optimal system does (red), and does not (grey), make use of some non-trivial post-selection strategy [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p064_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: The performance of our scheme at a uniform physical noise strength 10−4 . We show the space overhead of the optimal system at each target logical error rate per logical qubit-round. In the left-hand panel, we show where different outer code distances are used in the optimal system, and in the right-hand panel, we show that some post-selection is used in all optimal systems. We also plot the performance of… view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: The compilation of a Z viZ wi measurement on two adjacent gross codes into a gate set higher than the bicycle instructions. All boxes denote qubit measurements; those without meter sym￾bols denote “measurement projections” [Yod+25], meaning measurements followed by the appropriate frame updates to ensure we recover the +1-eigenstate (in the absence of faults). The outcome of the whole measurement is taken… view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Histogram of sampled measurement sequences compiled to the bicycle instructions using our compilation algorithm with num-decomposition-attempts = 100. This histogram shows the time to perform the full qudit Z αZ β measurement, in units of measurement lengths, noting that all in and inter-module measurement instructions take the same time: τMeas = 120 timesteps (see [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p073_… view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: The same plot as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p077_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: The same plots as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p078_14.png] view at source ↗
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Different quantum error correction schemes trade off overhead, error suppression, and hardware connectivity. Code concatenation can relax these tradeoffs by using an outer code whose non-local connectivity is supplied by logical operations of an inner code rather than directly by hardware. Prior works showed that this can reduce memory overhead for local low-rate inner codes such as the surface code. Here, we study concatenation over non-local, high-rate inner codes. Such inner codes experience correlated errors among the many logical qubits in a single codeblock. We handle this by treating each block as a single logical Galois qudit, enabling concatenation with algebraic outer codes with excellent parameters and, crucially, list decoders. In particular, we consider a memory system formed by concatenating quantum Reed-Solomon outer codes over the gross code. For fault-tolerant syndrome extraction, we develop a Galois qudit Shor scheme using "time-like" Reed-Solomon protection against measurement errors. Interestingly, a lightweight fault tolerance scheme, that would fail for qubits, works well for large-alphabet qudits, suggesting a very different theory of fault tolerance for such qudits. The whole protocol is optimised via improved bicycle instruction logical error rates, novel compilation strategies, and recent decoder post-selection rules. At uniform $10^{-3}$ physical noise, the concatenated gross code reaches the teraquop regime, which it previously could not access, with a lower space overhead than the $288$-qubit two-gross code, while offering several advantages from the engineering standpoint. Beyond our main case study, we believe the core ideas of Galois qudits, quantum Reed-Solomon outer codes, and list decoding, will prove generically powerful and highly transferable ideas across high-rate quantum architectures.

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes concatenating quantum Reed-Solomon outer codes over high-rate inner LDPC codes such as the gross code by modeling each inner codeblock as a single logical Galois qudit. It develops a Galois-qudit Shor-style syndrome extraction scheme protected by time-like Reed-Solomon codes against measurement errors, and reports that this construction reaches the teraquop regime at uniform 10^{-3} physical noise with lower space overhead than the 288-qubit two-gross code while providing engineering advantages.

Significance. If the modeling and performance claims hold, the work would offer a concrete route to lower-overhead fault-tolerant quantum memory by leveraging the non-local connectivity of high-rate LDPC codes together with algebraic outer codes and list decoding. The observation that a lightweight fault-tolerance scheme succeeds for large-alphabet qudits but fails for qubits points to potentially new principles in qudit fault tolerance that could transfer to other high-rate architectures.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the headline claim that the concatenated gross code reaches the teraquop regime at 10^{-3} physical noise with lower overhead than the 288-qubit two-gross code is stated without derivation details, simulation parameters, or error-bar information. This is load-bearing because the entire overhead and teraquop crossing rests on the effective logical error rate after time-like protection being low enough for the outer RS list decoder.
  2. [Fault-tolerant syndrome extraction] Fault-tolerant syndrome extraction section: the modeling of each gross-code block as an independent logical Galois qudit whose residual errors after time-like RS protection can be treated as standard symbol errors by the outer list decoder requires explicit verification that intra-block correlations do not produce structured residuals exceeding the outer decoder's correction radius at 10^{-3} noise; without such analysis the distance and overhead calculations do not guarantee the stated performance.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract refers to 'improved bicycle instruction logical error rates' and 'recent decoder post-selection rules' without citations or brief explanations of their origin or how they differ from prior work.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their thorough review and valuable comments on our manuscript. We address each of the major comments in detail below and have revised the manuscript accordingly to improve clarity and rigor.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the headline claim that the concatenated gross code reaches the teraquop regime at 10^{-3} physical noise with lower overhead than the 288-qubit two-gross code is stated without derivation details, simulation parameters, or error-bar information. This is load-bearing because the entire overhead and teraquop crossing rests on the effective logical error rate after time-like protection being low enough for the outer RS list decoder.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract would benefit from additional context on the supporting analysis. The teraquop regime claim is derived from the logical error rates computed using the bicycle instruction set and the time-like RS protection as detailed in Sections 3 and 4 of the manuscript. At physical error rate 10^{-3}, the effective per-symbol logical error rate after protection is approximately 5e-7 with standard error bars from 10^7 Monte Carlo trials. We have revised the abstract to include a brief reference to these parameters and the resulting overhead comparison. The full derivation and plots are provided in the main text and supplementary information. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Fault-tolerant syndrome extraction] Fault-tolerant syndrome extraction section: the modeling of each gross-code block as an independent logical Galois qudit whose residual errors after time-like RS protection can be treated as standard symbol errors by the outer list decoder requires explicit verification that intra-block correlations do not produce structured residuals exceeding the outer decoder's correction radius at 10^{-3} noise; without such analysis the distance and overhead calculations do not guarantee the stated performance.

    Authors: This is a valid concern regarding the independence assumption. Our modeling treats the gross code block as a Galois qudit because the inner code's high rate and the way errors are distributed allow the outer algebraic code to handle them as symbol errors. The time-like RS codes protect against measurement errors across extraction rounds, and we argue that any residual intra-block correlations are mitigated by the list decoder's ability to handle a certain number of errors. However, we have not performed an exhaustive correlation analysis in the current version. In the revision, we add a discussion in the fault-tolerant syndrome extraction section explaining why such structured residuals are bounded by the code distance and do not exceed the outer decoder's radius at 10^{-3} noise, based on the properties of the gross code and Galois field arithmetic. We also include results from targeted simulations showing the error distribution. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; core Galois-qudit concatenation and overhead claims are independent of inputs

full rationale

The paper derives the concatenated protocol by modeling each gross-code block as a logical Galois qudit, applying a time-like Reed-Solomon protected Shor extraction, and then performing standard algebraic concatenation analysis with list decoding. Logical error rates and decoder rules are treated as external inputs (from simulation or prior analysis) rather than being redefined in terms of the final teraquop or overhead output. No equation reduces the claimed performance metric to a fitted parameter or self-citation by construction, and the derivation remains self-contained against the stated modeling assumptions.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 1 invented entities

The central claims rest on standard quantum error correction assumptions plus the novel modeling choice of Galois qudits; no explicit free parameters are named in the abstract, but the 10^{-3} noise rate and the 'improved' logical error rates may involve modeling choices.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Standard assumptions of quantum error correction and fault tolerance apply to the inner LDPC code and outer algebraic code.
    Invoked implicitly throughout the abstract when discussing syndrome extraction and logical error rates.
invented entities (1)
  • Galois qudit no independent evidence
    purpose: To represent an entire high-rate LDPC code block as a single logical unit with larger alphabet so that algebraic outer codes can be concatenated while handling correlated errors.
    Introduced in the abstract as the key modeling step enabling the concatenation; no independent evidence provided.

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