Fault-tolerant structures for measurement-based quantum computation on a network

Journal Article (2025)
Author(s)

Yves van Montfort (Student TU Delft)

Sébastian de Bone (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), TU Delft - QID/Elkouss Group, TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre)

David Elkouss (TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre, TU Delft - Quantum Computer Science, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University)

DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2025-05-05-1723 Final published version
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Publication Year
2025
Language
English
Journal title
QUANTUM
Volume number
9
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Abstract

In this work, we introduce a method to construct fault-tolerant measurement-based quantum computation (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 entanglement distillation 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.