2018/12/31 by Craig Gidney, Austin G. Fowler · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.22331/q-2019-04-30-135
published as Quantum 3, 135 (2019) · 24 pages, 19 figures, 7 ancillary files
arxiv created 2019/04/26 · arxiv updated 2019/05/01
We present magic state factory constructions for producing |CCZ⟩ states and |T⟩ states. For the |CCZ⟩ factory we apply the surface code lattice surgery construction techniques described by Fowler et al. to the fault-tolerant Toffoli. The resulting factory has a footprint of 12d × 6d (where d is the code distance) and produces one |CCZ⟩ every 5.5d surface code cycles. Our |T⟩ state factory uses the |CCZ⟩ factory's output and a catalyst |T⟩ state to exactly transform one |CCZ⟩ state into two |T⟩ states. It has a footprint 25% smaller than the factory of Fowler et al. but outputs |T⟩ states twice as quickly. We show how to generalize the catalyzed transformation to arbitrary phase angles, and note that the case θ=22.5^∘ produces a particularly efficient circuit for producing |√(T)⟩ states. Compared to using the 12d × 8d × 6.5d |T⟩ factory of Fowler et al., our |CCZ⟩ factory can quintuple the speed of algorithms that are dominated by the cost of applying Toffoli gates, including Shor's algorithm and the chemistry algorithm of Babbush et al.. Assuming a physical gate error rate of 10-3, our CCZ factory can produce ∼ 1010 states on average before an error occurs. This is sufficient for classically intractable instantiations of the chemistry algorithm, but for more demanding algorithms such as Shor's algorithm the mean number of states until failure can be increased to ∼ 1012 by increasing the factory footprint ~20%.