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arXiv:2605.05369

Toward Hop-Independent Fidelity in Quantum Data Centers: Resource Requirements for Entanglement Purification

Mohadeseh Azari, Anoosha Fayyaz, Amy Babay, David Tipper, Prashant Krishnamurthy, Kaushik Seshadreesan

quant-phSubmitted May 6, 2026• Announced May 8, 2026• 0 citations
v1 · May 6, 2026v2 · Jul 30, 2026
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Abstract

Quantum data-center networks must distribute entanglement between QPUs over paths whose length grows with system scale, but each entanglement-swapping step reduces the quality of the raw end-to-end state. Topology, multiplexing, and repeated connection attempts can increase the number of raw end-to-end copies available for a request, yet they do not answer the central resource question: whether those copies are sufficient to remove, via entanglement purification, the fidelity loss caused by multi-hop distribution. We study this question through a topology-independent black-box model of the network. Each elementary link is modeled as a Werner state with parameter $w_0$, so ideal swapping over an $\ell$-link path produces equal-quality raw copies with Werner parameter $w_0^\ell$; purification succeeds if it outputs at least one state with Werner parameter at least $w_0$ with probability at least $p_{\mathrm{th}}$. We compare recursive BBPSSW purification with higher-order $r$-to-$1$ bilocal-Clifford purification protocols of Jansen \emph{et al.}, using an all-in recursive schedule whose success probability is computed by exact dynamic programming. The resulting resource landscapes show a threshold structure governed by the Werner entanglement condition $w_0^\ell>1/3$ and demonstrate that multi-copy purification substantially improves both feasibility and copy efficiency. Across the evaluated grid, the Jansen family requires fewer copies than BBPSSW at more than $96\%$ of shared feasible points; at $p_{\mathrm{th}}=0.70$, the median copy budget drops from $268$ to $30$. These results provide a quantitative purification-resource benchmark for assessing whether future quantum data-center architectures can practically support hop-independent end-to-end entanglement quality.

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