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This advancement demonstrates a significant reduction in logical block error rates to approximately 0.00014 through optimized integer linear programming circuits for stabilizer state preparation. By minimizing gate counts while enabling the detection of up to three errors, this work directly addresses critical bottlenecks in achieving reliable fault-tolerant quantum computation on current hardware platforms like Quantinuum's System Model H2.
Quantinuum Flag-Based State Preparation Cuts Block Error Rate to 0.00014

New circuits using integer linear programming improve fault-tolerant state preparation, achieving a logical block error rate of ~0.00014 for the Steane code.
Ben Criger and colleagues from Quantinuum achieved a logical block error rate of approximately 0.00014 using a method for quantum error correction on Quantinuum’s System Model H2…
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