Kyle Gulshen
kylegulshen.bsky.social
Kyle Gulshen
@kylegulshen.bsky.social
PhD student at Caltech studying quantum info / error correction
I am looking forward to continue tackling the remaining challenges surrounding this work—there are many interesting problems!
October 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Our unfolding proof provides a thorough description of the connection between certain sheaf codes, which generalize the toric code, and quantum Tanner codes, which generalize the color code.
October 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
On a technical level, we achieve the results on transversal gates by providing a partial understanding of the logical basis of these generalized color codes through a generalization of the ‘unfolding’ of the color code. The proof of this generalization constitutes the large appendix.
October 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
There are many interesting aspects of our construction; for example, we describe a Floquet implementation where the 4-qubit check measurements each round are fixed and geometrically local, but where the data qubits are shuffled in parallel along fixed nonlocal 3-site orbits between each round.
October 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The self-duality and strictly-transversal single-qubit phase gates also offer advantages over the more complicated fault tolerant gates of related sheaf codes.
October 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
We provide the first qubit code family on a (2D) simplicial HDX. It has good rate, several transversal gates (S, H, CZ, fold-), and is self-dual. The self-duality and level of symmetry seem hard to achieve with product complexes. The symmetry yields many (generalized) fold-transversal gates.
October 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
First we describe a broader framework that generalizes the color code, and we identify a mechanism to achieve certain transversal gates within this framework. We show how to build such codes on HDX and conjecture some can be good; we are still working through some aspects like distance lower bound.
October 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Our proposal is to move away from product complexes and embrace the irreducible fundamental objects of the HDX world: D>=2 simplicial HDX. Specifically, we use highly symmetric coset complexes. This work explores constructions of quantum codes on these complexes.
October 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Second, the current constructions require searching over a random local code, which leaves the quantum code unwieldy and lacking useful structure that could help with things like fault tolerant logic.
October 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
First, the 2D HDX for these codes is constructed as a (quotient of a) product of graphs, but it is unclear how to extend this operation optimally to larger dimensions D>2, which seems to be necessary to unlock some applications like transversal non-Clifford gates.
October 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The first asymptotically good qLDPC codes were recently constructed using 2D HDX. But these constructions leave much to be desired; for example, we need to be able to do fault tolerant logic on codes! There are a couple of bottlenecks for existing codes.
October 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM