GAN Decoder on a Quantum Toric Code for Noise-Robust Quantum Teleportation

A generative adversarial network (GAN)-based decoder is proposed for quantum topological codes and applied it to enhance a quantum teleportation protocol under depolarizing noise. By constructing and training the GAN's generator and discriminator networks using eigenvalue datasets from the code, a decoder is obtained with a significantly improved decoding pseudo-threshold. Simulation results show that the GAN decoder achieves a pseudo-threshold of approximately , estimated from the crossing point of logical error rate curves for code distances and , nearly double that of a classical decoder under the same conditions (). Moreover, at the same target logical error rate, the GAN decoder consistently achieves higher logical fidelity compared to the classical decoder. When applied to quantum teleportation, the protocol optimized using the decoder demonstrates enhanced fidelity across noise regimes. Specifically, for code distance , fidelity improves within the depolarizing noise threshold range ; for , the range extends to . Moreover, with appropriate training, our GAN decoder can generalize to other error models. This work positions GANs as powerful tools for decoding in topological quantum error correction, offering a flexible and noise-resilient framework for fault-tolerant quantum information processing.