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This research presents an algorithmic breakthrough for distributed quantum computing by minimizing non-local operations within CSS codes to improve scalability across multiple processors. By reducing communication overhead between qubit blocks, this work directly addresses a critical bottleneck in building large-scale fault-tolerant quantum systems without relying on complex teleportation schemes. The findings offer a more efficient pathway for executing fundamental CNOT circuits under arbitrary connectivity constraints.
MIT Cuts Non-Local Operations in Distributed Quantum Circuits

Implementing CNOT circuits within a CSS code now requires only O(nk) inter-block transversal CNOTs and intra-block Pauli measurements, a marked improvement over previous methods reliant on qubit and gate placement via teleportation. This synthesis method achieves asymptotic optimality for distributed circuits with arbitrarily restricted connectivity, minimising non-local operations that typically dominate error budgets in large-scale quantum computation. By generating circuits with fewer non-local gates from the outset, this work offers a fundamentally different approach to optimisation.
Tuomas Laakkonen of Finland Ltd. Optimising circuits for distributed quantum architectures has largely focused on qubit and gate placement via teleportation. An asymptotically optimal synthesis method for distributed CNOT and Clifford circuits now minimizes non-local operations regardless of connectivity restrictions. This is achieved by implementing CNOT circuits in a CSS code, encoding n logical qubits in k blocks using O(nk) inter-block transversal CNOTs and intra-block Pauli measurements. A new technique simplifies quantum…
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