Higgott, Oscar

Suppressing quantum errors by scaling a surface code logical qubit

Google Quantum, A. I., Acharya, R., Aleiner, I., Allen, R., Andersen, T. I., Ansmann, M., Arute, F., Arya, K., Asfaw, A., Atalaya, J., et al. (2023) · Nature

Quantum Computing Algorithms and ArchitectureQuantum Information and Cryptography

Cited by 1,103

Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold

Collaborators, G. Q. A. A., Acharya, R., Abanin, D. A., Aghababaie-Beni, L., Aleiner, I., Andersen, T. I., Ansmann, M., Arute, F., Arya, K., Asfaw, A., et al. (2025) · Nature

Quantum Computing Algorithms and ArchitectureQuantum Information and Cryptography

Cited by 778

Variational Quantum Computation of Excited States

Higgott, O., Wang, D., & Brierley, S. (2019) · Quantum

Quantum Computing Algorithms and ArchitectureQuantum many-body systems

Cited by 463

Accelerated Variational Quantum Eigensolver

Wang, D., Higgott, O., & Brierley, S. (2019) · Physical Review Letters

Quantum Computing Algorithms and ArchitectureQuantum many-body systems

Cited by 241

PyMatching: A Python Package for Decoding Quantum Codes with Minimum-Weight Perfect Matching

Higgott, O. (2022) · ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing

Quantum Computing Algorithms and ArchitectureError Correcting Code Techniques

Cited by 181

Sparse blossom: correcting a million errors per core second with minimum-weight matching

Higgott, O., & Gidney, C. (2025) · Quantum

Quantum Computing Algorithms and ArchitectureError Correcting Code Techniques

Cited by 180

Sparse Blossom: correcting a million errors per core second with minimum-weight matching

Higgott, O., & Gidney, C. (2023) · arXiv

Quantum Computing Algorithms and ArchitectureError Correcting Code Techniques

Cited by 148

Scaling and logic in the colour code on a superconducting quantum processor

Lacroix, N., Bourassa, A., Heras, F. J. H., Zhang, L. M., Bausch, J., Senior, A. W., Edlich, T., Shutty, N., Sivak, V., Bengtsson, A., et al. (2025) · Nature

Quantum Computing Algorithms and ArchitectureQuantum Information and Cryptography

Cited by 51

Subsystem codes with high thresholds by gauge fixing and reduced qubit overhead

Higgott, O., & Breuckmann, N. P. (2021) · Physical Review X

Quantum Computing Algorithms and ArchitectureError Correcting Code Techniques

Cited by 48

Tesseract: A Search-Based Decoder for Quantum Error Correction

Beni, L. A., Higgott, O., & Shutty, N. (2025) · arXiv

Quantum Computing Algorithms and ArchitectureError Correcting Code Techniques

Cited by 2