Perspective on the current state-of-the-art of quantum computing for drug discovery applications

NS Blunt, J Camps, O Crawford, R Izsák… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Computational chemistry is an essential tool in the pharmaceutical industry. Quantum
computing is a fast evolving technology that promises to completely shift the computational …

Building a fault-tolerant quantum computer using concatenated cat codes

C Chamberland, K Noh, P Arrangoiz-Arriola… - PRX Quantum, 2022 - APS
We present a comprehensive architectural analysis for a proposed fault-tolerant quantum
computer based on cat codes concatenated with outer quantum error-correcting codes. For …

Virtual distillation for quantum error mitigation

WJ Huggins, S McArdle, TE O'Brien, J Lee, NC Rubin… - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
Contemporary quantum computers have relatively high levels of noise, making it difficult to
use them to perform useful calculations, even with a large number of qubits. Quantum error …

[HTML][HTML] How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers in 8 hours using 20 million noisy qubits

C Gidney, M Ekerå - Quantum, 2021 - quantum-journal.org
We significantly reduce the cost of factoring integers and computing discrete logarithms in
finite fields on a quantum computer by combining techniques from Shor 1994, Griffiths-Niu …

Blueprint for a scalable photonic fault-tolerant quantum computer

JE Bourassa, RN Alexander, M Vasmer, A Patil… - Quantum, 2021 - quantum-journal.org
Photonics is the platform of choice to build a modular, easy-to-network quantum computer
operating at room temperature. However, no concrete architecture has been presented so …

A game of surface codes: Large-scale quantum computing with lattice surgery

D Litinski - Quantum, 2019 - quantum-journal.org
Given a quantum gate circuit, how does one execute it in a fault-tolerant architecture with as
little overhead as possible? In this paper, we discuss strategies for surface-code quantum …

Fault-tolerant resource estimate for quantum chemical simulations: Case study on Li-ion battery electrolyte molecules

IH Kim, YH Liu, S Pallister, W Pol, S Roberts… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
We estimate the resources required in the fusion-based quantum computing scheme to
simulate electrolyte molecules in Li-ion batteries on a fault-tolerant, photonic quantum …

Universal quantum computing with twist-free and temporally encoded lattice surgery

C Chamberland, ET Campbell - PRX Quantum, 2022 - APS
Lattice-surgery protocols allow for the efficient implementation of universal gate sets with two-
dimensional topological codes where qubits are constrained to interact with one another …

Magic state distillation: Not as costly as you think

D Litinski - Quantum, 2019 - quantum-journal.org
Despite significant overhead reductions since its first proposal, magic state distillation is
often considered to be a very costly procedure that dominates the resource cost of fault …

Cost of universality: A comparative study of the overhead of state distillation and code switching with color codes

ME Beverland, A Kubica, KM Svore - PRX Quantum, 2021 - APS
Estimating and reducing the overhead of fault-tolerance (FT) schemes is a crucial step
toward realizing scalable quantum computers. Of particular interest are schemes based on …