Towards fault-tolerant distributed quantum computation (FT-DQC): Taxonomy, recent progress, and challenges

As the works on quantum computing have seen substantial development in recent years, we are on the verge of seeing the fruitful result of the preliminary, early version of quantum computers. Nevertheless, in order to achieve full-fledged, large-scale quantum computers, two aspects still lacking in t...

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Main Authors: Harashta Tatimma Larasati, Byung-Soo Choi
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Published: Elsevier 2025-06-01
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description As the works on quantum computing have seen substantial development in recent years, we are on the verge of seeing the fruitful result of the preliminary, early version of quantum computers. Nevertheless, in order to achieve full-fledged, large-scale quantum computers, two aspects still lacking in the existing quantum computers, i.e., scalability and reliability, will need to be more carefully considered and investigated. In this survey, we present a review of existing literature that aims to alleviate the scalability and reliability issues in quantum computers. In particular, we discuss how existing research leads to two main solutions: for advancing scalability, a distributed quantum computing (DQC) paradigm will be the primary direction instead of the general centralized quantum computing (CQC), whereas for attaining reliability, a fault-tolerant quantum computation (FTQC) approach would need to be leveraged instead of the existing noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers (NISQ). Combining both solutions, we highlight the essentiality of fault-tolerant distributed quantum computation (FT-DQC) and present related progress in the field. Furthermore, from the papers that we have gathered, we provide the taxonomy of the works to give a clearer landscape of the field and discuss the key issues in realizing FT-DQC.
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spelling doaj-art-d8cba40d25fa4e27baa74a83fbe881122025-08-20T03:31:07ZengElsevierICT Express2405-95952025-06-0111341743510.1016/j.icte.2025.03.007Towards fault-tolerant distributed quantum computation (FT-DQC): Taxonomy, recent progress, and challengesHarashta Tatimma Larasati0Byung-Soo Choi1Department of Scientific Computing, Pukyong National University, Busan 48513, South Korea; School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung 40116, IndonesiaDepartment of Scientific Computing, Pukyong National University, Busan 48513, South Korea; Corresponding author.As the works on quantum computing have seen substantial development in recent years, we are on the verge of seeing the fruitful result of the preliminary, early version of quantum computers. Nevertheless, in order to achieve full-fledged, large-scale quantum computers, two aspects still lacking in the existing quantum computers, i.e., scalability and reliability, will need to be more carefully considered and investigated. In this survey, we present a review of existing literature that aims to alleviate the scalability and reliability issues in quantum computers. In particular, we discuss how existing research leads to two main solutions: for advancing scalability, a distributed quantum computing (DQC) paradigm will be the primary direction instead of the general centralized quantum computing (CQC), whereas for attaining reliability, a fault-tolerant quantum computation (FTQC) approach would need to be leveraged instead of the existing noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers (NISQ). Combining both solutions, we highlight the essentiality of fault-tolerant distributed quantum computation (FT-DQC) and present related progress in the field. Furthermore, from the papers that we have gathered, we provide the taxonomy of the works to give a clearer landscape of the field and discuss the key issues in realizing FT-DQC.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405959525000359Distributed quantum computingFault-tolerant quantum computingReliabilityReviewScalability
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Towards fault-tolerant distributed quantum computation (FT-DQC): Taxonomy, recent progress, and challenges
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Fault-tolerant quantum computing
Reliability
Review
Scalability
title Towards fault-tolerant distributed quantum computation (FT-DQC): Taxonomy, recent progress, and challenges
title_full Towards fault-tolerant distributed quantum computation (FT-DQC): Taxonomy, recent progress, and challenges
title_fullStr Towards fault-tolerant distributed quantum computation (FT-DQC): Taxonomy, recent progress, and challenges
title_full_unstemmed Towards fault-tolerant distributed quantum computation (FT-DQC): Taxonomy, recent progress, and challenges
title_short Towards fault-tolerant distributed quantum computation (FT-DQC): Taxonomy, recent progress, and challenges
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topic Distributed quantum computing
Fault-tolerant quantum computing
Reliability
Review
Scalability
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