A Syndrome-Extraction Framework for Distributed Lattice Surgery on Arbitrary Rotated Surface-Code Layouts — E8 Intelligence Research
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Modular quantum computing is a leading candidate for scalable fault tolerant quantum computation. Performing lattice surgery using surface code patches in different modules requires the use of inter-module gates that are noisier than the local gates. Furthermore, the merged layouts during lattice surgery expose multiple directions in which hook errors can propagate to reduce the fault distance. Existing hook-avoiding schedules either increase the syndrome extraction circuit depth, or let link faults propagate into the bulk. We introduce a seam construction that allows splitting arbitrary merged rotated surface code layout into smaller patches with uniform boundaries that could keep their own hook-avoiding N/Z shaped schedule. At the seam we split weight-4 stabilizers into pairs of weight-2 stabilizers that are mediated through a Bell pair and measured within a CNOT depth of 4. We also employ the use of three-qubit $\texttt{CXX}$ gates for parity measurements at the seam to maintain the Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com
Author: Caldin, Andrew Stewart
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225747557
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