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Clifford gates with logical transversality for self-dual CSS codes

Theerapat Tansuwannont, Yugo Takada, and Keisuke Fujii

Phys. Rev. Research - Accepted 9 October, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/pjf9-p4tw

Abstract

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 [[n,k,d]] self-dual Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) codes with k≥1 and prove necessary and sufficient conditions for the code to have a symplectic basis such that (1) transversal logical Hadamard gates ⨂j=1kH‾j can be implemented by transversal physical Hadamard gates ⨂i=1nHi, and (2) for any (a1,…,ak)∈{−1,1}k, transversal logical phase gates ⨂j=1kS‾jaj can be implemented by transversal physical phase gates ⨂i=1nSibi for some (b1,…,bn)∈{−1,1}n. Self-dual CSS codes satisfying the conditions include any codes with odd n. 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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