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Constant sized support state distillation with qubit recycling

Sep 2026 · 0 citations · 10 references
Physics

Abstract

In order to circumvent that no universal set of gates can be achieved on a given quantum error-correcting codes, additional gates can be performed through magic state injection. This however requires to have access to high fidelity magic state, which can be obtained by the distillation of low quality states to fewer higher quality ones. In this paper, we provide a family of distillation protocols able to produce diagonal states at every level of the Clifford hierarchy. This family is obtained recursively using code doubling techniques and leveraging qubit recycling, the fact that some idle qubits of the protocols can be measured and re-used. At a given level of the Clifford hierarchy, we show that the protocols we derive can be performed at arbitrary high distance on a fix number of logical qubits. This family recovers many known efficient protocols, and uncovers new ones, such as a $111 \to 1$ protocol for $|T\rangle$ state distillation at distance $7$, which are the most compact in term of volume. Finally, we discuss possible extension of this framework for distillation protocols producing more than one output state.

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