- Accepted Paper
Clifford gates with logical transversality for self-dual CSS codes
Phys. Rev. Research - Accepted 9 October, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/pjf9-p4tw
Phys. Rev. Research - Accepted 9 October, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/pjf9-p4tw
Quantum error-correcting codes with high encoding rate are good candidates for large-scale quantum computers as they use physical qubits more efficiently than codes of the same distance that encode only a few logical qubits. Some logical gate of a high-rate code can be fault-tolerantly implemented using transversal physical gates, but its logical operation may depend on the choice of a symplectic basis that defines logical Pauli operators of the code. In this work, we focus on self-dual Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) codes with and prove necessary and sufficient conditions for the code to have a symplectic basis such that (1) transversal logical Hadamard gates can be implemented by transversal physical Hadamard gates , and (2) for any , transversal logical phase gates can be implemented by transversal physical phase gates for some . Self-dual CSS codes satisfying the conditions include any codes with odd . We also generalize the idea to concatenated self-dual CSS codes and show that certain logical Clifford gates have multiple transversal implementations, each by logical gates at a different level of concatenation. Several applications of our results for fault-tolerant quantum computation with low overhead are also provided.
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