Fault-tolerant structures for measurement-based quantum computation on a network
In this work, we introduce a method to construct fault-tolerant <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"><mml:mtext class="MJX-tex-mathit" mathvariant="italic">measurement-based quantum computation</mml:mtext></mml:mrow></mml:math> (MBQC) architectures and numerically estimate their performance over various types of networks. A possible application of such a paradigm is distributed quantum computation, where separate computing nodes work together on a fault-tolerant computation through entanglement. We gauge error thresholds of the architectures with an efficient stabilizer simulator to investigate the resilience against both circuit-level and network noise. We show that, for both monolithic (i.e., non-distributed) and distributed implementations, an architecture based on the diamond lattice may outperform the conventional cubic lattice. Moreover, the high erasure thresholds of non-cubic lattices may be exploited further in a distributed context, as their performance may be boosted through <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"><mml:mtext class="MJX-tex-mathit" mathvariant="italic">entanglement distillation</mml:mtext></mml:mrow></mml:math> by trading in entanglement success rates against erasure errors during the error-decoding process. These results highlight the significance of lattice geometry in the design of fault-tolerant measurement-based quantum computing on a network, emphasizing the potential for constructing robust and scalable distributed quantum computers.
Authors
- David Elkouss (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-2768)
- Sébastian de Bone (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6423-8761)
- Yves van Montfort
Institutions
- Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (NL)
- Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (JP)
- QuSoft (NL)
- QuTech (NL)
- Delft University of Technology (NL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Quantum
- Published
- 2025-05-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2025-05-05-1723
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Quantum Information and Cryptography
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 12.40
Funders
- Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland
- Technische Universiteit Delft
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
- Fujitsu
- Moonshot Research and Development Program