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Paper 1

Iteratively decoded magic state distillation

Kwok Ho Wan

Year
2024
Journal
arXiv preprint
DOI
arXiv:2410.17992
arXiv
2410.17992

We present numerical simulation results for the 7-to-1 and 15-to-1 state distillation circuits, constructed using transversal CNOTs acting on multiple surface code patches. The distillation circuits are decoded iteratively using the method outlined in [arXiv:2407.20976]. We show that, with a re-configurable qubit architecture, we can perform fast magic state distillation in $\sim\mathcal{O}(1)$ code cycles. We confirm that both circuits suppress an injected input error rate $p$ to $\mathcal{O}(p^3)$ in the presence of additional circuit-level noise. We also outline how ZX-calculus and Pauli webs can be used to benchmark stabiliser proxies for these distillation circuits.

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Paper 2

Trotterless Simulation of Open Quantum Systems for NISQ Quantum Devices

Colin Burdine, Enrique P. Blair

Year
2024
Journal
arXiv preprint
DOI
arXiv:2410.03854
arXiv
2410.03854

The simulation of quantum systems is one of the flagship applications of near-term NISQ (noisy intermediate-scale quantum) computing devices. Efficiently simulating the rich, non-unitary dynamics of open quantum systems remains challenging on NISQ hardware. Current simulation methods for open quantum systems employ time-stepped Trotter product formulas ("Trotterization") which can scale poorly with respect to the simulation time and system dimension. Here, we propose a new simulation method based on the derivation of a Kraus operator series representation of the system. We identify a class of open quantum systems for which this method produces circuits of time-independent depth, which may serve as a desirable alternative to Trotterization, especially on NISQ devices.

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