Characterizing Quantum Error Correction Performance of Radiation-induced Errors
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Quantum Physics arXiv:2602.06202 (quant-ph) [Submitted on 5 Feb 2026] Title:Characterizing Quantum Error Correction Performance of Radiation-induced Errors Authors:Paul G. Baity, Anuj K. Nayak, Lav R. Varshney, Nicholas Jeon, Byung-Jun Yoon, Peter J. Love, Adolfy Hoisie View a PDF of the paper titled Characterizing Quantum Error Correction Performance of Radiation-induced Errors, by Paul G. Baity and 6 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Radiation impacts are a current challenge with computing on superconducting-based quantum devices because they can lead to widespread correlated errors across the device. Such errors can be problematic for quantum error correction (QEC) codes, which are generally designed to correct independent errors. To address this, we have developed a computational model to simulate the effects of radiation impacts on QEC performance. This is achieved by building from recently developed models of quasiparticle density, mapping radiation-induced qubit error rates onto a quantum error channel and simulation of a simple surface code. We also provide a performance metric to quantify the resilience of a QEC code to radiation impacts. Additionally, we sweep various parameters of chip design to test mitigation strategies for improved QEC performance. Our model approach is holistic, allowing for modular performance testing of error mitigation strategies and chip and code designs. Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con) Cite as: arXiv:2602.06202 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:2602.06202v1 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.06202 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Paul Baity [view email] [v1] Thu, 5 Feb 2026 21:25:15 UTC (4,214 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Characterizing Quantum Error Correction Performance of Radiation-induced Errors, by Paul G. Baity and 6 other authorsView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Current browse context: quant-ph new | recent | 2026-02 Change to browse by: cond-mat cond-mat.supr-con References & Citations INSPIRE HEP NASA ADSGoogle Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) Links to Code Toggle Papers with Code (What is Papers with Code?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)