Quantum computers will not be that different: A blueprint for quantum computer architecture at scale

arXiv:2609.19639 · quant-ph, cs.AR, cs.NI, cs.SY, eess.SY · Submitted 2026-09-17 · Read on arXiv

quant-ph, cs.AR, cs.NI, cs.SY, eess.SY

Submitted: 2026-09-17

Updated: 2026-09-17

Terminology

• Abstraction — 22× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Entanglement — 10× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Calibration — 6× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Distillation — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantum Error Correction — 6× in this paper
• Fidelity — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• High-Performance Computing — 2× in this paper
• Entanglement Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Modularity — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Quantum Processing Unit — 1× in this paper
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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• Fault-tolerant quantum computation
• Yoked surface codes
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• Quantum block lookahead adders and the wait for magic states
• Assessing requirements to scale to practical quantum advantage
• How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers with less than a million noisy qubits
• Securing Elliptic Curve Cryptocurrencies against Quantum Vulnerabilities: Resource Estimates and Mitigations
• Cleaner magic states with hook injection
• Geometrically Enhanced Topological Quantum Codes
• Quantum computing with atomic qubits and Rydberg interactions: Progress and challenges

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