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The Pinnacle Architecture: Reducing the cost of breaking RSA-2048 to 100 000 physical qubits using quantum LDPC codes

Quantum Physics 2026-05-06 v2

Abstract

The realisation of utility-scale quantum computing inextricably depends on the design of practical, low-overhead fault-tolerant architectures. We introduce the Pinnacle Architecture, which uses quantum low-density parity check (QLDPC) codes to allow for universal, fault-tolerant quantum computation with a spacetime overhead significantly smaller than that of any competing architecture. With this architecture, we show that 2048-bit RSA integers can be factored with fewer than one hundred thousand physical qubits, given a physical error rate of 10310^{-3}, code cycle time of 11 microsecond and a reaction time of 1010 microseconds. We thereby demonstrate the feasibility of utility-scale quantum computing with an order of magnitude fewer physical qubits than has previously been believed necessary.

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@article{arxiv.2602.11457,
  title  = {The Pinnacle Architecture: Reducing the cost of breaking RSA-2048 to 100 000 physical qubits using quantum LDPC codes},
  author = {Paul Webster and Lucas Berent and Omprakash Chandra and Evan T. Hockings and Nouédyn Baspin and Felix Thomsen and Samuel C. Smith and Lawrence Z. Cohen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.11457},
  year   = {2026}
}

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22 pages, 7 figures