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This research adapts the Pinnacle architecture for superconducting qubits with fixed eight-degree connectivity, demonstrating the feasibility of factoring 2048-bit RSA integers within a month using roughly 120,000 physical qubits. The study provides critical parameters for error rates and cycle times that inform near-term quantum hardware design and algorithmic optimization strategies.
The Pinnacle Architecture with fixed connectivity of degree eight
arXiv:2609.21249v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We show how the Pinnacle architecture can be adapted to be compatible with superconducting qubits, where the connectivity between qubits must be fixed at fabrication. Specifically, we present a modified instantiation of the architecture that has fixed connectivity degree of eight. With this instantiation, we show that a 2048-bit RSA integer can be factored in one month with approximately 120 000 physical qubits, given a physical error rate of $10^{-3}$, code cycle time of 1 microsecond and reaction time of 10 microseconds.
Abstract:We show how the Pinnacle architecture can be adapted to be compatible with superconducting qubits, where the connectivity between qubits must be fixed at fabrication. Specifically, we present a modified instantiation of the architecture that has fixed connectivity degree of eight. With this instantiation, we show that a 2048-bit RSA integer can be factored in one month with approximately 120 000 physical qubits, given a physical error rate of $10^{-3}$, code cycle time of 1 microsecond and reaction time of 10 microseconds.
arXiv:2609.21249 [quant-ph]
(or arXiv:2609.21249v1 [quant-ph] for this version)
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