用纠错信号同时校准量子硬件,实现长期稳定计算。
Provably Efficient Self-Calibrating Quantum Fault Tolerance

- 利用纠错测量结果作为校准信号,实现在线自校准。
- 理论证明可在 $O(1/\varepsilon^2)$ 次迭代内达到 $\varepsilon$ 精度。
- 适用于长时间运行的量子计算,尤其适合低密度奇偶校验码。
量子纠错仅在所有物理操作低于容错阈值时有效,而实际中模拟控制参数会因环境波动持续漂移。未来容错量子计算可能需运行数天甚至数月,频繁中断校准不现实。一种替代方案是将校准融入计算过程,复用纠错测量作为校准信号(Sivak等,Nature 2026),但其可证明的效率仍未知。本文建立理论框架,证明对广泛控制误差,检测率构成局部强凸代理目标,具有高概率成立。该几何性质使仅使用正常纠错中收集的测量数据即可实现简单高效的在线优化算法。理论上,对恒定漂移,可在 $O(1/\varepsilon^2)$ 个周期内收敛至 $\varepsilon$ 检测率;对时变漂移也给出保证。进一步证明收敛速度与码距无关,适用于量子低密度奇偶校验(LDPC)码。中性原子阵列脉冲级仿真及大规模电路级Clifford仿真验证了理论预测。结果确立了自校准容错为可证明高效的范式:同一纠错测量同时保护逻辑信息并稳定硬件。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Quantum error correction protects logical information only when every physical operation remains below the fault-tolerance threshold, a condition that must be maintained continuously rather than only at the initial calibration. In practice, however, analog control parameters inevitably drift because of environmental fluctuations. As future fault-tolerant quantum computations are expected to run for days or even months, interrupting computation for repeated recalibration becomes fundamentally impractical. A promising alternative is to integrate calibration directly into computation by repurposing syndrome measurements as a calibration signal (Sivak et al, Nature 2026), but whether such self-calibration can be achieved with provable efficiency remains an open question. Here we establish a theoretical framework for such self-calibrating quantum fault tolerance. We prove that, for a broad class of control-induced errors, the detection rate defines a locally strongly convex surrogate objective for analog calibration with high probability. This geometric property enables a simple and efficient online optimization algorithm using only syndrome measurements collected during normal error correction. We prove convergence to an $\varepsilon$ detection rate within $O(1/\varepsilon^2)$ epochs for time-independent drifts and also establish guarantees for time-dependent drifts. We further show that the convergence rate is independent of the code distance for quantum low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. Pulse-level simulations of neutral-atom arrays and large-scale circuit-level Clifford simulations confirm these theoretical predictions. Our results establish self-calibrating fault tolerance as a provably efficient paradigm in which the same syndrome measurements simultaneously protect logical information and stabilize the underlying hardware.
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