Measurements of Floquet code plaquette stabilizers

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The recently introduced Floquet codes have already inspired several follow up works in terms of theory and simulation.

• Here we report the first preliminary results on their experimental implementation, using IBM Quantum hardware.
• Specifically, we implement the stabilizer measurements of the original Floquet code based on the honeycomb lattice model, as well as the more recently introduced Floquet Color code.
• The stabilizers of these are measured on a variety of systems, with the rate of syndrome changes used as a proxy for the noise of the device.