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Color codes are a leading class of topological quantum error-correcting codes with modest error thresholds and structural compatibility with two-dimensional architectures, which make them well-suited for fault-tolerant quantum computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Nitish Kumar Chandra , David Tipper , Reza Nejabati , Eneet Kaur , Kaushik P. Seshadreesan

A universal quantum computing scheme, with a universal set of logical gates, is proposed based on networks of 1D quantum systems. The encoding of information is in terms of universal features of gapped phases, for which effective field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Dong-Sheng Wang

Quantum computing offers significant speedups, but the large number of physical qubits required for quantum error correction introduces engineering challenges for a monolithic architecture. One solution is to distribute the logical quantum…

With experimental quantum computing technologies now in their infancy, the search for efficient means of testing the correctness of these quantum computations is becoming more pressing. An approach to the verification of quantum computation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Alexandru Gheorghiu , Matty J. Hoban , Elham Kashefi

Relational verification of quantum programs has many potential applications in quantum and post-quantum security and other domains. We propose a relational program logic for quantum programs. The interpretation of our logic is based on a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Gilles Barthe , Justin Hsu , Mingsheng Ying , Nengkun Yu , Li Zhou

Distributed quantum information processing seeks to overcome the scalability limitations of monolithic quantum devices by interconnecting multiple quantum processing nodes via classical and quantum communication. This approach extends the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Johannes Knörzer , Xiaoyu Liu , Benjamin F. Schiffer , Jordi Tura

We give a new theoretical solution to a leading-edge experimental challenge, namely to the verification of quantum computations in the regime of high computational complexity. Our results are given in the language of quantum interactive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-25 Anne Broadbent

The emerging field of quantum computing has shown it might change how we process information by using the unique principles of quantum mechanics. As researchers continue to push the boundaries of quantum technologies to unprecedented…

Quantum computers can solve specific complex tasks for which no reasonable-time classical algorithm is known. Quantum computers do however also offer inherent security of data, as measurements destroy quantum states. Using shared entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Niels M. P. Neumann , Robert S. Wezeman

While building a universal quantum computer remains challenging, devices of restricted power such as the so-called one pure qubit model have attracted considerable attention. An important step in the construction of these limited quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-10 Theodoros Kapourniotis , Elham Kashefi , Animesh Datta

Various physical constraints limit the number of qubits that can be implemented in a single quantum processor, and thus it is necessary to connect multiple quantum processors via quantum interconnects. While several compiler implementations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-02 Shin Nishio , Ryo Wakizaka

CoqQ is a framework for reasoning about quantum programs in the Coq proof assistant. Its main components are: a deeply embedded quantum programming language, in which classic quantum algorithms are easily expressed, and an expressive…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Li Zhou , Gilles Barthe , Pierre-Yves Strub , Junyi Liu , Mingsheng Ying

We consider the task of sharing a secret quantum state in a quantum network in a verifiable way. We propose a protocol that achieves this task, while reducing the number of required qubits, as compared to the existing protocols. To achieve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 Victoria Lipinska , Gláucia Murta , Jérémy Ribeiro , Stephanie Wehner

Formal methods have been a successful approach for modelling and verifying the correctness of complex technologies like microprocessor chip design, biological systems and others. This is the main motivation of developing quantum formal…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Ittoop Vergheese Puthoor

Modular quantum computing architectures require error correction schemes that remain effective in the presense of noisy inter-processor operations. We introduce a distributed quantum error correction framework based on approximate codes to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Connor Clayton , Bruno Avritzer

Quantum error correction is an essential tool for reliably performing tasks for processing quantum information on a large scale. However, integration into quantum circuits to achieve these tasks is problematic when one realizes that…

It is desirable that a distributed quantum computer can operate despite the replacement or failure of its constituent components, allowing the reliability of the distributed system to exceed that of its subcomponents. We first show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Evan Sutcliffe , Coral M. Westoby

The Quantum Internet, by enabling quantum communications among remote quantum nodes, is a network capable of supporting functionalities with no direct counterpart in the classical world. Indeed, with the network and communications…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-03 Daniele Cuomo , Marcello Caleffi , Angela Sara Cacciapuoti

Significant developments made in quantum hardware and error correction recently have been driving quantum computing towards practical utility. However, gaps remain between abstract quantum algorithmic development and practical applications…

We develop a formal model for distributed measurement-based quantum computations, adopting an agent-based view, such that computations are described locally where possible. Because the network quantum state is in general entangled, we need…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vincent Danos , Ellie D'Hondt , Elham Kashefi , Prakash Panangaden