Tolerating Device Failure in Distributed Quantum Computing

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Autori principali: Sutcliffe, Evan, Westoby, Coral M.
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Pubblicazione: 2026
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author Sutcliffe, Evan
Westoby, Coral M.
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Westoby, Coral M.
contents It is desirable that a distributed quantum computer can operate despite the replacement or failure of its constituent components, allowing the reliability of the distributed system to exceed that of its subcomponents. We first show that when quantum error correction is performed over a modular quantum network, quantum devices can be swapped out or replaced, during operation, with minimal impact on logical error rates. We also investigate the ability of the toric and hyperbolic Floquet quantum error correcting codes to protect logical information under low rates of modular node failure. In particular, we show that under the proposed distributed quantum error scheme, the selected codes are able to maintain good logical error suppression during the failure of entire nodes. For catastrophic node failure of probability p/100, we suggest that a distributed toric code would outperform one implemented on a monolithic device below a physical error rate of 0.05%.
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spellingShingle Tolerating Device Failure in Distributed Quantum Computing
Sutcliffe, Evan
Westoby, Coral M.
Quantum Physics
It is desirable that a distributed quantum computer can operate despite the replacement or failure of its constituent components, allowing the reliability of the distributed system to exceed that of its subcomponents. We first show that when quantum error correction is performed over a modular quantum network, quantum devices can be swapped out or replaced, during operation, with minimal impact on logical error rates. We also investigate the ability of the toric and hyperbolic Floquet quantum error correcting codes to protect logical information under low rates of modular node failure. In particular, we show that under the proposed distributed quantum error scheme, the selected codes are able to maintain good logical error suppression during the failure of entire nodes. For catastrophic node failure of probability p/100, we suggest that a distributed toric code would outperform one implemented on a monolithic device below a physical error rate of 0.05%.
title Tolerating Device Failure in Distributed Quantum Computing
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11088