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New Metrics Needed for Reliable Quantum Error Correction

12/20/2025

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Stabilizer expectation values used to assess Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) states do not reliably indicate fidelity to ideal states.
High stabilizer values provide only an upper bound on fidelity, so a strong stabilizer signal can still be far from ideal.
As a result, good stabilizer performance does not guarantee high-quality logical qubits.
The findings call for improved metrics in quantum error correction for GKP codes to enhance resilience against photon loss.

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Stabilizer expectation values used to assess Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) states do not reliably indicate fidelity to ideal states.
High stabilizer values provide only an upper bound on fidelity, so a strong stabilizer signal can still be far from ideal.
As a result, good stabilizer performance does not guarantee high-quality logical qubits.
The findings call for improved metrics in quantum error correction for GKP codes to enhance resilience against photon loss.