Hybrid Lattice Surgery: Non-Clifford Gates via Non-Abelian Surface Codes

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Main Authors: Huang, Sheng-Jie, Warman, Alison, Schafer-Nameki, Sakura, Chen, Yanzhu
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Published: 2025
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author Huang, Sheng-Jie
Warman, Alison
Schafer-Nameki, Sakura
Chen, Yanzhu
author_facet Huang, Sheng-Jie
Warman, Alison
Schafer-Nameki, Sakura
Chen, Yanzhu
contents In universal fault-tolerant quantum computing, implementing logical non-Clifford gates often demands substantial spacetime resources for many error-correcting codes, including the high-threshold surface code. A critical mission for realizing large-scale quantum computing is to develop simple and resource-efficient implementations of logical non-Clifford gates. We propose a novel way of implementing non-Clifford operations in the standard surface code based on hybrid lattice surgery. First we generalize the standard lattice surgery to hybrid lattice surgery, where operations of rough merge and rough split happen across different topological codes. Then we apply such procedures between Abelian and non-Abelian codes and show that this can provide non-Clifford operations in the standard surface code, in the form of a magic state or a non-Clifford gate teleportation. Complementing this, we provide a continuum topological field theory description of this hybrid lattice surgery utilizing interfaces between (2+1)d topological orders. From these considerations, we can generalize our protocol to non-Clifford gates and magic states at all finite levels of the Clifford hierarchy, as well as gates beyond the hierarchy. We also discuss protocols extending this framework to qutrits.
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spellingShingle Hybrid Lattice Surgery: Non-Clifford Gates via Non-Abelian Surface Codes
Huang, Sheng-Jie
Warman, Alison
Schafer-Nameki, Sakura
Chen, Yanzhu
Quantum Physics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
High Energy Physics - Theory
In universal fault-tolerant quantum computing, implementing logical non-Clifford gates often demands substantial spacetime resources for many error-correcting codes, including the high-threshold surface code. A critical mission for realizing large-scale quantum computing is to develop simple and resource-efficient implementations of logical non-Clifford gates. We propose a novel way of implementing non-Clifford operations in the standard surface code based on hybrid lattice surgery. First we generalize the standard lattice surgery to hybrid lattice surgery, where operations of rough merge and rough split happen across different topological codes. Then we apply such procedures between Abelian and non-Abelian codes and show that this can provide non-Clifford operations in the standard surface code, in the form of a magic state or a non-Clifford gate teleportation. Complementing this, we provide a continuum topological field theory description of this hybrid lattice surgery utilizing interfaces between (2+1)d topological orders. From these considerations, we can generalize our protocol to non-Clifford gates and magic states at all finite levels of the Clifford hierarchy, as well as gates beyond the hierarchy. We also discuss protocols extending this framework to qutrits.
title Hybrid Lattice Surgery: Non-Clifford Gates via Non-Abelian Surface Codes
topic Quantum Physics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20890