Surface Code Entanglement Ejection
Kento Samuel Soon, Fumiyoshi Kobayashi, Naphan Benchasattabuse +1 more
Scaling fault-tolerant quantum computing beyond a single processor demands logical—logical entanglement. While surface codes excel in local error correction, creating robust, distributed entanglement remains challenging. In this work, we introduce Entanglement Ejection—a protocol for generating physical—logical entanglement from a single logical qubit. This subroutine establishes logical—logical entanglement via entanglement swapping with a physical Bell pair provided by a quantum network. Unlike common injection-based methods, our protocol is deterministic, requiring no post-selection and thereby has the potential of reducing spatio-temporal resource overhead. We show via numerical simulations under a superconducting-specific noise model that this potential resource efficiency comes at the cost of a slightly higher, yet comparable, logical error rate.
IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)•Aug 30, 2025•0 citations