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Accelerating Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation with Good qLDPC Codes

Quantum Physics 2026-04-14 v3

Abstract

We propose a fault-tolerant quantum computation scheme that is broadly applicable to quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) codes. The scheme achieves constant qubit overhead and a time overhead of O(da+o(1))O(d^{a+o(1)}) for any [[n,k,d]][[n,k,d]] qLDPC code with constant encoding rate and distance d=Ω(n1/a)d = \Omega(n^{1/a}). For good qLDPC codes, the time overhead is minimized and reaches O(d1+o(1))O(d^{1+o(1)}). In contrast, code surgery based on gauging measurement and brute-force branching requires a time overhead of O(dw1+o(1))O(dw^{1+o(1)}), where dwnd\leq w\leq n. Thus, our scheme is asymptotically faster for all codes with a<2a < 2. This speedup is achieved by developing techniques that enable parallelized code surgery under constant qubit overhead and leverage classical locally testable codes for efficient resource state preparation. These results establish a new paradigm for accelerating fault-tolerant quantum computation on qLDPC codes, while maintaining low overhead and broad applicability.

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@article{arxiv.2510.19442,
  title  = {Accelerating Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation with Good qLDPC Codes},
  author = {Guo Zhang and Yuanye Zhu and Ying Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.19442},
  year   = {2026}
}

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57 pages, 16 figures

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