Practical Entanglement Distillation Protocols with Quadratic Error Suppression

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26757v1
• Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 09:29:39 GMT
• Title: Practical Entanglement Distillation Protocols with Quadratic Error Suppression
• Abstract summary: Near-term and early fault-tolerant quantum computing architectures exhibit highly non-uniform error rates.<n>In particular, local operations within a chip can be substantially more reliable than operations connecting different chips or dilution refrigerators.<n>We develop small-scale entanglement distillation protocols designed to minimize both space and time overhead.
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• Abstract: Near-term and early fault-tolerant quantum computing architectures are expected to exhibit highly non-uniform error rates. In particular, local operations within a chip can be substantially more reliable than operations connecting different chips or dilution refrigerators. Such inter-module operations can therefore become a dominant bottleneck, even when quantum error correction is applied. Entanglement distillation provides a natural way to trade additional operations and qubits for higher-fidelity entanglement. Standard distillation protocols, however, are usually formulated in an LOCC resource model, in which several noisy Bell pairs are generated initially and all subsequent processing consists only of local operations and classical communication. Here, we consider a generalized model tailored to modular quantum computing hardware, in which the two modules have access to high-fidelity local operations and to repeated uses of the same noisy inter-module entangling operation during the protocol. We develop practical small-scale entanglement distillation protocols designed to minimize both space and time overhead. Remarkably, our main protocol requires only two qubits per module, yet achieves quadratic error suppression of inter-module errors, assuming local operations are much cleaner. Compared with existing small-scale protocols, our space-optimal protocol provides more space- and time-efficient quadratic error suppression and achieves the best performance in our simulations and experiments on noisy links of current superconducting quantum processors. These results suggest that inter-module-gate-assisted entanglement distillation can be a practical primitive for overcoming noisy links in modular quantum computing architectures.

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