Accelerating Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation with Good Quantum Low-Density Parity-Check Codes

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Authors: Guo Zhang, Yuanye Zhu, Ying Li
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Abstract

We propose a fault-tolerant quantum computation scheme that is broadly applicable to quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) codes. The scheme achieves constant qubit overhead and a time overhead of O ( d a + o ( 1 ) ) for any [ [ n , k , d ] ] qLDPC code with constant encoding rate and distance d = Ω ( n 1 / a ) . For good qLDPC codes, the time overhead is minimized and reaches O ( d 1 + o ( 1 ) ) . In contrast, code surgery based on gauging measurement and brute-force branching requires a time overhead of O ( d w 1 + o ( 1 ) ) , where d ≤ w ≤ n . Thus, our scheme is asymptotically faster for all codes with a < 2 . This speedup is achieved by developing techniques that enable parallelized code surgery under constant qubit overhead and leverage classical locally testable codes for efficient resource state preparation. These results establish a new paradigm for accelerating fault-tolerant quantum computation on qLDPC codes, while maintaining low overhead and broad applicability.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture Quantum Information and Cryptography Coding theory and cryptography

Publication details

Journal / source
PRX Quantum
Volume
7
Issue
3
Publication date
3 June 2026
Language
EN