Quantum (Apr 2022)

Boundaries for the Honeycomb Code

  • Jeongwan Haah,
  • Matthew B. Hastings

DOI
https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2022-04-21-693
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6
p. 693

Abstract

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We introduce a simple construction of boundary conditions for the honeycomb code \cite{honeycomb} 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.