Transversal gates for probabilistic implementation of multi-qubit Pauli rotations
Abstract
We introduce a general framework for weak transversal gates -- probabilistic implementation of logical unitaries realized by local physical unitaries -- and propose a novel partially fault-tolerant quantum computing architecture that surpasses the standard Clifford+T architecture on workloads with million-scale Clifford+T gate counts. First, we prove the existence of weak transversal gates on the class of Calderbank-Shor-Steane codes, covering high-rate qLDPC and topological codes such as surface code or color codes, and present an efficient algorithm to determine the physical multi-qubit Pauli rotations required for the desired logical rotation. Second, we propose a partially fault-tolerant Clifford+ architecture that performs in-place Pauli rotations via a repeat-until-success strategy; phenomenological simulations indicate that a rotation of 0.003 attains logical error of on a surface code with at physical error rate of , while avoiding the spacetime overheads of magic state factories, small angle synthesis, and routing. Finally, we perform resource estimation on surface and gross codes for a Trotter-like circuit with logical qubits to show that the Clifford+ architecture outperforms the conventional Clifford+T approach by a factor of tens to a hundred in runtime due to natural rotation-gate parallelism. This work open a novel paradigm for realizing logical operations beyond the constraints of conventional design.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2510.08290,
title = {Transversal gates for probabilistic implementation of multi-qubit Pauli rotations},
author = {Nobuyuki Yoshioka and Alireza Seif and Andrew Cross and Ali Javadi-Abhari},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.08290},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
37 pages, 11 figures