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Loss-biased fault-tolerant QEC

Pecorari et al. tailor both code design and decoding to loss-dominated error channels, improving logical performance when loss is the main noise source.

Composite gates robust to multiple errors

Tochev & Vitanov design composite quantum gates that simultaneously compensate for several error types, enhancing logical gate robustness on noisy hardware.

High-performance CA decoders

Winter et al. introduce cellular-automaton decoders for repetition and toric codes that are fast and scalable enough for near-term hardware controllers.

Variance geometry of Pauli-detecting codes

Gupta et al. analyze the continuous landscape of exact Pauli-detecting codes beyond the stabilizer formalism, offering new design principles for non-stabilizer codes.

Fusion erasure suppression in photonics

Ren et al. present a protocol to suppress erasure errors in fusion operations, attacking a key bottleneck in fusion-based photonic quantum computing.

LightStim QEC framework

Fang et al. release LightStim, which automates detector-error-model construction and lets experimentalists prototype QEC protocols against realistic noise.

StabilizerBench: AI-assisted QEC synthesis benchmark

Paz et al. introduce a standardized benchmark for AI-assisted synthesis of QEC circuits, giving ML methods a common testbed for error-correction tasks.

Pulse shaping for superconducting qubits

Patra & Raina survey and systematize pulse-shaping techniques for transmon-style superconducting qubits to cut leakage and control errors.

Universal quantum-information-preserving photonic switch

Zhao et al. propose a photonic switch that preserves quantum information through routing, a building block for scalable quantum networks.

Vertical shuttling protocols for trapped ions

Iqbal & Nizamani propose vertical shuttling protocols for trapped ions in multi-rail, multi-zone surface traps, supporting more complex 2D layouts and scalable ion-trap architectures.

HEOM-in-calibration-loop

Ye shows that calibration loops using hierarchical equations of motion expose non-Markovian bath features that standard Markovian routines miss, improving superconducting tune-up.

Time-optimal qubit reset

Huang & Dong derive time-optimal control protocols for fast qubit reset given environmental spectra, relevant for mid-circuit measurements and active reset.

Bayesian phase stabilization

Liu et al. achieve shot-noise-limited phase stabilization for quantum networks using Bayesian methods, a key ingredient for scalable distributed entanglement.

Dynamical regimes of two qubits in a transmission line

Borrelli et al. characterize the dynamics of two qubits coupled via a transmission line, informing chip-level coupling and crosstalk engineering.

Replay-buffer engineering for circuit optimization

Kundu & Feld adapt replay-buffer strategies from RL to make hybrid quantum-classical circuit optimization more noise-robust on NISQ devices.

Feedback Hamiltonian as score function

Dubey & John connect diffusion-model score-matching ideas to feedback Hamiltonians for quantum trajectory reversal, forming a diffusion-style framework for trajectory control.

Hyperparameters in PQC initialization

Kulshrestha & Upadhyay analyze how initialization hyperparameters affect parameterized quantum circuit trainability, informing QML training practice.

Structured state reconstruction

Chambyal et al. show that physically motivated operator selection significantly improves structured quantum state tomography over generic schemes.

Neutral-atom 2:1 physical-to-logical ratio

QuEra, Harvard, and MIT demonstrated a 2:1 physical-to-logical qubit ratio using qLDPC codes on neutral-atom hardware, underscoring the current race on logical-qubit density.

Lagrange: Italy's first public research QPU

Viviani et al. document Lagrange, Italy's first publicly accessible quantum computer for research and education, expanding global quantum-cloud access.

Error correction as defining challenge

A 2025 industry report argued that error correction is now the defining challenge across trapped-ion, neutral-atom, and superconducting platforms as systems approach logical-qubit thresholds.

Commercial QPU landscape

The MIT Quantum Index Report 2025 counts over 40 commercially available QPUs from roughly two dozen manufacturers, mostly NISQ-scale and accessed via cloud.

Annealing commercialization

D-Wave's Advantage2 annealer is commercially available and, for some optimization workloads, is claimed to outperform large exascale GPU systems.