Encoding and Node Choices in Transversal Fault-Tolerant Distributed Quantum Computations: An Initial Study
Abstract
We compare and study different Bivariate-Bicycle (BB) encodings and node choices for distributed quantum operations such as transversal non-local CNOTs. We observe that while some encodings have more physical qubits requiring more ebits for a distributed computation, reducing ebit consumption alone might not be the best criterion for selecting an encoding for the logical qubits, if the goal is to reduce the logical error rate of the distributed computation; for example, one should also consider encodings with a larger distance, which using more physical qubits can provide. We consider distributed, or non-local, CNOTs and computation of the global gate (GCZ) over distributed logical qubits as examples. The choice of encoding enables particular concurrent operations; e.g., we show that a transversal physical GCZ on a self-dual $[[120,8,12]] BB$ code can realize eight concurrent logical GCZ operations after accounting for the logical permutation induced by transversal Hadamard.
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BibTeX
@misc{loke2026encoding,
title = {{Encoding and Node Choices in Transversal Fault-Tolerant Distributed Quantum Computations: An Initial Study}},
author = {Seng W. Loke},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.37210},
eprint = {2609.37210},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37210},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Encoding and Node Choices in Transversal Fault-Tolerant Distributed Quantum Computations: An Initial Study
AU - Seng W. Loke
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/29
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.37210
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37210
AB - We compare and study different Bivariate-Bicycle (BB) encodings and node choices for distributed quantum operations such as transversal non-local CNOTs. We observe that while some encodings have more physical qubits requiring more ebits for a distributed computation, reducing ebit consumption alone might not be the best criterion for selecting an encoding for the logical qubits, if the goal is to reduce the logical error rate of the distributed computation; for example, one should also consider encodings with a larger distance, which using more physical qubits can provide. We consider distributed, or non-local, CNOTs and computation of the global gate (GCZ) over distributed logical qubits as examples. The choice of encoding enables particular concurrent operations; e.g., we show that a transversal physical GCZ on a self-dual $[[120,8,12]] BB$ code can realize eight concurrent logical GCZ operations after accounting for the logical permutation induced by transversal Hadamard.
ER -