Fault-tolerant $|\sqrt{ \mathrm{T} }\rangle$ state preparation and injection for more efficient fine-grained quantum circuit synthesis

Abstract:Magic-state injection is a standard route to realize universal fault-tolerant quantum computation. Whereas the set of Clifford gates in combination with the non-Clifford T gate is a widely used universal gate set, extending the available set of non-Clifford primitives can reduce compilation overhead, provided that the additional primitives can be prepared fault-tolerantly with competitive resource costs and at sufficiently low logical noise rates. In this work, we introduce flag fault-tolerant protocols for preparing logical $|\sqrt{\mathrm{T}} \rangle $ magic states on the 3D tetrahedral color code and its smaller morphed variant. Our simulations under circuit-level noise verify fault tolerance, quantify acceptance and logical error rates, and we reconstruct the effective logical channels of the corresponding circuits for gate injection via logical process tomography. We find that access to $\sqrt{\mathrm{T}}$ reduces the average space-time cost of synthesizing Haar-random single-qubit unitaries by approximately $20$-$30$% relative to the Clifford+T gate set across practically relevant approximation regimes. These results demonstrate how expanding the set of fault-tolerant non-Clifford primitives can improve computational efficiency and broaden the design space for universal quantum computation in the early fault-tolerant era.

arXiv:2608.25797 [quant-ph]

(or arXiv:2608.25797v1 [quant-ph] for this version)

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