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Sublogarithmic Distillation in all Prime Dimensions using Punctured Reed-Muller Codes

Quantum Physics 2025-10-14 v1

Abstract

Magic state distillation is a leading but costly approach to fault-tolerant quantum computation, and it is important to explore all possible ways of minimizing its overhead cost. The number of ancillae required to produce a magic state within a target error rate ϵ\epsilon is O(logγ(ϵ1))O(\log^{\gamma} (\epsilon^{-1})) where γ\gamma is known as the yield parameter. Hastings and Haah derived a family of distillation protocols with sublogarithmic overhead (i.e., γ<1\gamma < 1) based on punctured Reed-Muller codes. Building on work by Campbell \textit{et al.} and Krishna-Tillich, which suggests that qudits of dimension p>2p>2 can significantly reduce overhead, we generalize their construction to qudits of arbitrary prime dimension pp. We find that, in an analytically tractable puncturing scheme, the number of qudits required to achieve sublogarithmic overhead decreases drastically as pp increases, and the asymptotic yield parameter approaches 1lnp\frac{1}{\ln p} as pp \to \infty. We also perform a small computational search for optimal puncture locations, which results in several interesting triorthogonal codes, including a [[519,106,5]]5[[519,106,5]]_5 code with γ=0.99\gamma=0.99.

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@article{arxiv.2510.10852,
  title  = {Sublogarithmic Distillation in all Prime Dimensions using Punctured Reed-Muller Codes},
  author = {Tanay Saha and Shiroman Prakash},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.10852},
  year   = {2025}
}

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30 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables

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