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Fault-tolerant structures for measurement-based quantum computation on a network

Quantum Physics 2025-05-07 v2

Abstract

In this work, we introduce a method to construct fault-tolerant measurement-based quantum computation (MBQC) architectures and numerically estimate their performance over various types of networks. A possible application of such a paradigm is distributed quantum computation, where separate computing nodes work together on a fault-tolerant computation through entanglement. We gauge error thresholds of the architectures with an efficient stabilizer simulator to investigate the resilience against both circuit-level and network noise. We show that, for both monolithic (i.e., non-distributed) and distributed implementations, an architecture based on the diamond lattice may outperform the conventional cubic lattice. Moreover, the high erasure thresholds of non-cubic lattices may be exploited further in a distributed context, as their performance may be boosted through entanglement distillation by trading in entanglement success rates against erasure errors during the error-decoding process. These results highlight the significance of lattice geometry in the design of fault-tolerant measurement-based quantum computing on a network, emphasizing the potential for constructing robust and scalable distributed quantum computers.

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@article{arxiv.2402.19323,
  title  = {Fault-tolerant structures for measurement-based quantum computation on a network},
  author = {Yves van Montfort and Sébastian de Bone and David Elkouss},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.19323},
  year   = {2025}
}

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21 pages, 17 figures

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