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  "abstract": "Magic-state cultivation offers a promising alternative for lowering the cost of non-Clifford operations in fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC). However, realizing cultivation in practice exposes two challenges: (i) the lack of an open-source classical runtime layer between logical software and physical control, and (ii) the latency constraints on protocol-specific decisions that determine magic-state readiness. To address these challenges, we adopt an algorithm--hardware co-design approach. At the algorithm level, we develop a two-stage early-escape scheme that identifies an informative subset of detectors offline, constructs a compact decoding problem, and performs partial decoding in parallel with complete decoding at runtime, allowing high-confidence attempts to advance before full decoding completes. At the hardware level, we present MagiCFirm, a configurable runtime that combines offline-compiled microprograms with dedicated datapaths for detector construction, event processing, and protocol control, enabling end-to-end execution of magic-state cultivation. Across evaluated configurations, MagiCFirm reduces wall-clock magic-state preparation time by up to 39.3% at matched logical error rate. For a representative magic-state-bound workload, this translates to an estimated 11% reduction in overall application runtime.",
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      "name": "Jubo Xu"
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    {
      "name": "Abbas B. Ziad"
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    {
      "name": "Prakash Murali"
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    {
      "name": "Hongxiang Fan"
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  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.29267",
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  "published": "2026-09-24",
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  "title": "MagiCFirm: A Runtime for Magic-State Cultivation with Algorithm-Hardware Co-Design",
  "title_text": "MagiCFirm: A Runtime for Magic-State Cultivation with Algorithm-Hardware Co-Design",
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