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Parity-unfolded distillation architecture for noise-biased platforms

Quantum Physics 2026-04-20 v1

Abstract

We introduce the parity-unfolded architecture, a fault-tolerant quantum computing scheme that relies on direct preparation and teleportation of small-angle rotations Z1/2k Z^{1/2^{k}} rather than approximating them with the conventional (Clifford + TT) gate set. The architecture is enabled by efficient distillation of gates from an arbitrary level of the Clifford hierarchy, which we refer to as parity unfolding. With it, a state Zk=Z1/2k+|Z_k\rangle = Z^{1/2^{k}}|{+}\rangle can be prepared fault-tolerantly using 2k+3+O(2k/2)2^{k+3} + O(2^{k/2}) biased-noise qubits on a planar chip with nearest-neighbour connectivity. For algorithms requiring native Z1/2kZ^{1/2^{k}} gates, such as the Quantum Fourier Transform and phase estimation, the proposed scheme allows to reduce resource overheads for up to k=7k=7, i.e., up to T1/32T^{1/32}. Furthermore, when used for the synthesis of arbitrary small-angle rotations, parity-unfolded distillation of (TT + T\sqrt{T}) reduces the minimum achievable logical error rate by 43% while cutting the resource requirements by 26%, when compared to unfolded distillation of only the TT gate.

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@article{arxiv.2604.15436,
  title  = {Parity-unfolded distillation architecture for noise-biased platforms},
  author = {Konstantin Tiurev and Christoph Fleckenstein and Christophe Goeller and Paul Schnabl and Matthias Traube and Nitica Sakharwade and Anette Messinger and Josua Unger and Wolfgang Lechner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.15436},
  year   = {2026}
}
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