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most citedEntanglement Distillation between Solid-State Quantum Network Nodes

411 citations · 1.4k across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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quant-ph2026

Macromux: scalable postselection for high-threshold fault-tolerant quantum computation

Patrick Birchall, Jacob Bridgeman, Christopher Dawson +7

We introduce a new resource-efficient scheme for fault-tolerant quantum computation known as `macroscale multiplexing' (or simply `Macromux'), that utilizes scalable postselection…

quant-ph2025

Comparison of schemes for highly loss tolerant photonic fusion based quantum computing

Sara Bartolucci, Tom Bell, Hector Bombin +18

We summarize the performance of recently-proposed methods for achieving fault tolerant fusions-based quantum computation with high tolerance to qubit loss, specifically aimed at ph…

quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

Fault-tolerant complexes

Hector Bombin, Chris Dawson, Terry Farrelly +5

Fault-tolerant complexes describe surface-code fault-tolerant protocols from a single geometric object. We first introduce fusion complexes that define a general family of fusion-b…

quant-ph2023★ 7 cited

Increasing error tolerance in quantum computers with dynamic bias arrangement

Hector Bombín, Chris Dawson, Naomi Nickerson +2

Many quantum operations are expected to exhibit bias in the structure of their errors. Recent works have shown that a fixed bias can be exploited to improve error tolerance by stat…

quant-ph2023★ 10 cited

Modular decoding: parallelizable real-time decoding for quantum computers

Héctor Bombín, Chris Dawson, Ye-Hua Liu +3

Universal fault-tolerant quantum computation will require real-time decoding algorithms capable of quickly extracting logical outcomes from the stream of data generated by noisy qu…

quant-ph2023★ 41 cited

Unifying flavors of fault tolerance with the ZX calculus

Hector Bombin, Daniel Litinski, Naomi Nickerson +2

There are several models of quantum computation which exhibit shared fundamental fault-tolerance properties. This article makes commonalities explicit by presenting these different…

quant-ph2022★ 13 cited

Active volume: An architecture for efficient fault-tolerant quantum computers with limited non-local connections

Daniel Litinski, Naomi Nickerson

In existing general-purpose architectures for surface-code-based fault-tolerant quantum computers, the cost of a quantum computation is determined by the circuit volume, i.e., the…

quant-ph2021★ 58 cited

Logical blocks for fault-tolerant topological quantum computation

Hector Bombin, Chris Dawson, Ryan V. Mishmash +3

Logical gates constitute the building blocks of fault-tolerant quantum computation. While quantum error-corrected memories have been extensively studied in the literature, explicit…

quant-ph2021★ 11 cited

Switch networks for photonic fusion-based quantum computing

Sara Bartolucci, Patrick Birchall, Damien Bonneau +6

Fusion-based quantum computing (FBQC) offers a powerful approach to building a fault-tolerant universal quantum computer using photonic components -- single-photon sources, linear-…

quant-ph2021★ 8 cited

Interleaving: Modular architectures for fault-tolerant photonic quantum computing

Hector Bombin, Isaac H. Kim, Daniel Litinski +5

Useful fault-tolerant quantum computers require very large numbers of physical qubits. Quantum computers are often designed as arrays of static qubits executing gates and measureme…

quant-ph2021★ 64 cited

Fusion-based quantum computation

Sara Bartolucci, Patrick Birchall, Hector Bombin +10

We introduce fusion-based quantum computing (FBQC) - a model of universal quantum computation in which entangling measurements, called fusions, are performed on the qubits of small…

quant-ph2018★ 11 cited

Measurement based fault tolerance beyond foliation

Naomi Nickerson, Héctor Bombín

In order to build a scalable quantum computer error correction will be required to reduce the impact of errors. Implementing error correction in the framework of measurement based…

quant-ph2017★ 58 cited

Analysing correlated noise on the surface code using adaptive decoding algorithms

Naomi H. Nickerson, Benjamin J. Brown

Laboratory hardware is rapidly progressing towards a state where quantum error-correcting codes can be realised. As such, we must learn how to deal with the complex nature of the n…

quant-ph2017★ 226 cited

Almost-linear time decoding algorithm for topological codes

Nicolas Delfosse, Naomi H. Nickerson

In order to build a large scale quantum computer, one must be able to correct errors extremely fast. We design a fast decoding algorithm for topological codes to correct for Pauli…

quant-ph2017★ 411 cited

Entanglement Distillation between Solid-State Quantum Network Nodes

Norbert Kalb, Andreas A. Reiserer, Peter C. Humphreys +7

The potential impact of future quantum networks hinges on high-quality quantum entanglement shared between network nodes. Unavoidable real-world imperfections necessitate means to…

quant-ph2016★ 4 cited

Error correcting power of small topological codes

Naomi H. Nickerson

Many quantum technologies are now reaching a high level of maturity and control, and it is likely that the first demonstrations of suppression of naturally occurring quantum noise…

quant-ph2015★ 104 cited

Fault-tolerant error correction with the gauge color code

Benjamin J. Brown, Naomi H. Nickerson, Dan E. Browne

The constituent parts of a quantum computer are inherently vulnerable to errors. To this end we have developed quantum error-correcting codes to protect quantum information from no…

quant-ph2014★ 15 cited

Freely Scalable Quantum Technologies using Cells of 5-to-50 Qubits with Very Lossy and Noisy Photonic Links

Naomi H. Nickerson, Joseph F. Fitzsimons, Simon C. Benjamin

Exquisite quantum control has now been achieved in small ion traps, in nitrogen-vacancy centres and in superconducting qubit clusters. We can regard such a system as a universal ce…

quant-ph2014★ 80 cited

A silicon-based surface code quantum computer

Joe O'Gorman, Naomi H. Nickerson, Philipp Ross +2

Individual impurity atoms in silicon can make superb individual qubits, but it remains an immense challenge to build a multi-qubit processor: There is a basic conflict between nano…

quant-ph2012★ 230 cited

Topological quantum computing with a very noisy network and local error rates approaching one percent

Naomi H. Nickerson, Ying Li, Simon C. Benjamin

A scalable quantum computer could be built by networking together many simple processor cells, thus avoiding the need to create a single complex structure. The difficulty is that r…