Enhanced Entanglement Protection of Logical Qubits by a Hybrid Quantum Error Correction and Entanglement Purification Scheme
Gaurav Bonde, Amarendra K. Sarma
Abstract Quantum entanglement is a fundamental resource for quantum computing, quantum communication, and quantum cryptography. In realistic quantum channels, however, entanglement is highly susceptible to noise and decoherence. Entanglement purification(EP) and quantum error correction (QEC) offer distinct approaches to protecting entanglement against noisy quantum channels. In this work, we propose a hybrid scheme that integrates these two approaches to enhance the protection of entanglement between logical qubits. The scheme exploits both the error-correcting capability of encoded logical qubits and the distillation power of entanglement purification, assuming recovery to the logical codespace after each QEC cycle. This combined approach enables improved entanglement preservation under noisy conditions. The resulting robust logical entanglement is well-suited for applications in quantum communication and quantum cryptography and offers a promising route toward more reliable distributed quantum information processing.
•Jun 5, 2026•0 citations