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Paper 1

Ice cream, chocolate, random identification codes, quantum error correction -- and a truly warm heart

Christian Deppe

Year
2025
Journal
arXiv preprint
DOI
arXiv:2512.11889
arXiv
2512.11889

This text is written in remembrance of Vladimir (Volodia) Sidorenko, honoring his scientific work, his kindness, and the warm and humorous spirit he brought into the community.

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Paper 2

Synthesis of Arbitrary Quantum Circuits to Topological Assembly: Systematic, Online and Compact

Alexandru Paler, Austin G. Fowler, Robert Wille

Year
2017
Journal
arXiv preprint
DOI
arXiv:1711.01387
arXiv
1711.01387

It is challenging to transform an arbitrary quantum circuit into a form protected by surface code quantum error correcting codes (a variant of topological quantum error correction), especially if the goal is to minimise overhead. One of the issues is the efficient placement of magic state distillation sub circuits, so-called distillation boxes, in the space-time volume that abstracts the computation's required resources. This work presents a general, systematic, online method for the synthesis of such circuits. Distillation box placement is controlled by so-called schedulers. The work introduces a greedy scheduler generating compact box placements. The implemented software, whose source code is available online, is used to illustrate and discuss synthesis examples. Synthesis and optimisation improvements are proposed.

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