Distillation of N-Qubit Stabilizer States on a Star Network Topology
Abstract
We introduce an entanglement distillation protocol that utilizes an arbitrary $[[n,k,d]]$ stabilizer code to convert n raw copies of an N-qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state into k logical copies in the presence of Pauli noise. Our explicit formulation of the scheme on a star network topology is efficiently scalable to arbitrary N, requires only local operations, and minimizes the impact of errors on idle physical qubits, enabling the distribution of high-fidelity entangled logical states between any number of quantum processors. We report the results of numerical experiments using the 5-qubit code, toric code, and $[[144,12,12]]$ bivariate bicyle code to protect against independent single-qubit depolarizing noise on all qubits. Our encoding scheme improves the final GHZ state fidelity relative to a single bare GHZ state sent over the same noisy channel for depolarizing rates up to or above 6 % for all codes tested. Additionally, we use the stabilizer formalism to prove that our protocol can be applied to any N-qubit Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) stabilizer state, from which the GHZ state emerges as a special case. This result explicitly establishes the working principle of previous stabilizer-based Bell pair and GHZ state distillation schemes, and generalizes such protocols beyond the traditionally considered states. We also show that some stabilizer codes can distill any stabilizer state with our protocol.
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BibTeX
@misc{mahaffey2026distillation,
title = {{Distillation of N-Qubit Stabilizer States on a Star Network Topology}},
author = {Theodore M. Mahaffey and Chaohan Cui and Saikat Guha and Murphy Yuezhen Niu},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.39916},
eprint = {2609.39916},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.39916},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Distillation of N-Qubit Stabilizer States on a Star Network Topology
AU - Theodore M. Mahaffey
AU - Chaohan Cui
AU - Saikat Guha
AU - Murphy Yuezhen Niu
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/30
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.39916
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.39916
AB - We introduce an entanglement distillation protocol that utilizes an arbitrary $[[n,k,d]]$ stabilizer code to convert n raw copies of an N-qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state into k logical copies in the presence of Pauli noise. Our explicit formulation of the scheme on a star network topology is efficiently scalable to arbitrary N, requires only local operations, and minimizes the impact of errors on idle physical qubits, enabling the distribution of high-fidelity entangled logical states between any number of quantum processors. We report the results of numerical experiments using the 5-qubit code, toric code, and $[[144,12,12]]$ bivariate bicyle code to protect against independent single-qubit depolarizing noise on all qubits. Our encoding scheme improves the final GHZ state fidelity relative to a single bare GHZ state sent over the same noisy channel for depolarizing rates up to or above 6 % for all codes tested. Additionally, we use the stabilizer formalism to prove that our protocol can be applied to any N-qubit Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) stabilizer state, from which the GHZ state emerges as a special case. This result explicitly establishes the working principle of previous stabilizer-based Bell pair and GHZ state distillation schemes, and generalizes such protocols beyond the traditionally considered states. We also show that some stabilizer codes can distill any stabilizer state with our protocol.
ER -