Purely-logarithmic-time- and constant-space-overhead fault-tolerant quantum computation

Abstract:We prove that constant-space-overhead fault-tolerant quantum computation can be achieved with provably strictly logarithmic time overhead, improving over the best known results with additional subpolylogarithmic factors. Our main construction uses polynomial-subrank transversal logical $\CCZ$ gates on good quantum locally testable codes to implement addressable universal computation by transferring batches of logical qubits between dense storage and active logical subspaces while reusing the same ancillary workspace. Logical $\CCZ$ gates are implemented directly by the transversal operation, so only stabilizer resource states require separate preparation. Furthermore, we give an alternative construction that also achieves purely logarithmic time overhead based on modifying the quantum Reed--Solomon magic-state distillation scheme of Nguyen and Pattison. Recursively applying a fixed distillation circuit protected by qLTCs of increasing block length eliminates the subpolylogarithmic time factor.

arXiv:2609.28461 [quant-ph]

(or arXiv:2609.28461v1 [quant-ph] for this version)

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