Quantum Circuit Pruning: From NISQ Architectures to Fault-Tolerant Operations

arXiv:2610.00669 · quant-ph · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Terminology

• Pruning — 60× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Fidelity — 38× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distillation — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing — 3× in this paper
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantum Circuits — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• Mind the gaps: The fraught road to quantum advantage
• Quantum computing with Qiskit

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