Experimental Demonstration of Logical Magic State Distillation
Abstract
Realizing universal fault-tolerant quantum computation is a key goal in quantum information science. By encoding quantum information into logical qubits utilizing quantum error correcting codes, physical errors can be detected and corrected, enabling substantial reduction in logical error rates. However, the set of logical operations that can be easily implemented on such encoded qubits is often constrained, necessitating the use of special resource states known as 'magic states' to implement universal, classically hard circuits. A key method to prepare high-fidelity magic states is to perform 'distillation', creating them from multiple lower fidelity inputs. Here we present the experimental realization of magic state distillation with logical qubits on a neutral-atom quantum computer. Our approach makes use of a dynamically reconfigurable architecture to encode and perform quantum operations on many logical qubits in parallel. We demonstrate the distillation of magic states encoded in d=3 and d=5 color codes, observing improvements of the logical fidelity of the output magic states compared to the input logical magic states. These experiments demonstrate a key building block of universal fault-tolerant quantum computation, and represent an important step towards large-scale logical quantum processors.
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@article{arxiv.2412.15165,
title = {Experimental Demonstration of Logical Magic State Distillation},
author = {Pedro Sales Rodriguez and John M. Robinson and Paul Niklas Jepsen and Zhiyang He and Casey Duckering and Chen Zhao and Kai-Hsin Wu and Joseph Campo and Kevin Bagnall and Minho Kwon and Thomas Karolyshyn and Phillip Weinberg and Madelyn Cain and Simon J. Evered and Alexandra A. Geim and Marcin Kalinowski and Sophie H. Li and Tom Manovitz and Jesse Amato-Grill and James I. Basham and Liane Bernstein and Boris Braverman and Alexei Bylinskii and Adam Choukri and Robert DeAngelo and Fang Fang and Connor Fieweger and Paige Frederick and David Haines and Majd Hamdan and Julian Hammett and Ning Hsu and Ming-Guang Hu and Florian Huber and Ningyuan Jia and Dhruv Kedar and Milan Kornjača and Fangli Liu and John Long and Jonathan Lopatin and Pedro L. S. Lopes and Xiu-Zhe Luo and Tommaso Macrì and Ognjen Marković and Luis A. Martínez-Martínez and Xianmei Meng and Stefan Ostermann and Evgeny Ostroumov and David Paquette and Zexuan Qiang and Vadim Shofman and Anshuman Singh and Manuj Singh and Nandan Sinha and Henry Thoreen and Noel Wan and Yiping Wang and Daniel Waxman-Lenz and Tak Wong and Jonathan Wurtz and Andrii Zhdanov and Laurent Zheng and Markus Greiner and Alexander Keesling and Nathan Gemelke and Vladan Vuletić and Takuya Kitagawa and Sheng-Tao Wang and Dolev Bluvstein and Mikhail D. Lukin and Alexander Lukin and Hengyun Zhou and Sergio H. Cantú},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.15165},
year = {2025}
}
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8+11 pages, 4+4 figures