Schedule
Tutorials
This year at QEC we are pleased to offer tutorials on the Sunday before the conference. The tutorials will be as follows:
| Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM | Adrien Suau | Riverlane | TBA |
| 11:00 AM | Nouédyn Baspin | Iceberg Quantum | TBA |
| 1:00 PM | Nicolas Delfosse and Johannes Borregaard | IonQ | Fault-tolerant quantum computing with trapped ions |
| 3:00 PM | Yaniv Kurman | Quantum Machines | Executing QEC in Practice: Quantum-Classical Workflows on Real Control Systems |
Conference Schedule
| Time | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM | Invited Talk: Yue Wu | Invited Talk: Anthony Leverrier | Invited Talk: Jim Harrington | Invited Talk: Natalie C. Brown | Invited Talk: Vedika Khemani |
| 10:00 AM | Scaling Neural Decoders to Large Codes and Low Error Rates | Fault Tolerance by Construction | Magic state cultivation on a superconducting quantum processor | QGPU: Parallel logic in quantum LDPC codes | Universal quantum computation with group surface codes |
| 10:30 AM | A scalable and real-time neural decoder for topological quantum codes | Symmetric Self-Dual Quantum Codes on High Dimensional Expanders | Experimental Demonstration of High-Fidelity Logical Magic States from Code Switching | Batched high-rate logical operations for quantum LDPC codes | Ising on the donut: Regimes of topological quantum error correction from statistical mechanics |
| 11:00 AM | Coffee | ||||
| 11:30 AM | Proof of a finite threshold for the union-find decoder | Syndrome Extraction Circuits with Near-Optimal Depths for Practical Quantum Error Correcting Code Families | Magic state distillation via codes over binary extension fields | No-Go Theorem on Fault Tolerant Gadgets for Multiple Logical Qubits | Exact learning of quantum noise with tensor networks |
| 12:00 PM | Minimum Weight Decoding in the Colour Code is NP-hard | Quantum Weight Reduction with Layer Codes | MERGED: Transversal Gates at Arbitrary Levels of the Clifford Hierarchy in 2D Topological Codes | MERGED: Constant-Overhead Addressable Gates via Single-Shot Code Switching | MERGED: Efficient learning of logical noise from syndrome data |
| MERGED: Hybrid Lattice Surgery: Non-Clifford Gates via Non-Abelian Surface Codes | MERGED: Transversal Dimension Jump for Product qLDPC Codes | MERGED: Quantum advantages for syndrome-aware noisy logical observable estimation | |||
| 12:30 PM | Lunch | ||||
| 2:00 PM | Reinforcement Learning Control of Quantum Error Correction | Fail fast: techniques to probe rare events in quantum error correction | Advantage in distributed quantum computing with slow interconnects, and experiments on a monolithic QPU | Constant-Time QLDPC Code Surgery: Formulation and Constructions | Linear-Time Encodable and Decodable Quantum Error-Correcting Codes |
| 2:30 PM | Scalable quantum error correction tailored for a heavy-hex qubit array | Decoding Correlated Errors in Quantum LDPC Codes | Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation with Merged Color Codes | Non-Abelian Quantum Low-Density Parity Check Codes and Non-Clifford Operations from Gauging Logical Gates via Measurements | Partial Self-Correction in Layer Codes |
| 3:00 PM | Computing with many encoded logical qubits beyond break-even | Check-weight-constrained quantum codes: Bounds and examples | Over 10x Denser Fault Tolerance using Boundary-Connected Modules | Entangling logical qubits without physical operations | Optimal Decoding with the Worm |
| 3:30 PM | Coffee | ||||
| 4:00 PM | Efficient Simulation and Modeling of Quantum Error Correction with Small Markovian Errors | Panel | Macromux: scalable postselection for high-threshold fault-tolerant quantum computation | Panel | Quantum computing with anyons is fault-tolerant |
| 4:30 PM | In-situ benchmarking of fault-tolerant quantum circuits | Efficient magic-state generation with quantum tricycle codes | Efficient high-threshold decoding for concatenated quantum Hamming codes with near-optimal effective distance | ||
| 5:00 PM | Poster Session | Business Meeting | Poster Session | Closing Remarks | |
| 6:00 PM | Conference Dinner | ||||
| 7:00 PM |
List of Accepted Contributed Talks
Monday, June 8th, 2026
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| Scaling Neural Decoders to Large Codes and Low Error Rates | Andi Gu, Pablo Bonilla, Mikhail Lukin and Susanne Yelin |
| A scalable and real-time neural decoder for topological quantum codes | Andrew Senior, Thomas Edlich, Francisco Heras, Lei Zhang, Oscar Higgott, James Spencer, Taylor Applebaum, Sam Blackwell, Justin Ledford, Akvilė Žemgulytė, Augustin Žídek, Noah Shutty, Andrew Cowie, Yin Li, George Holland, Peter Brooks, Charlie Beattie, Michael Newman, Alex Davies, Cody Jones, Sergio Boixo, Hartmut Neven, Pushmeet Kohli and Johannes Bausch |
| Proof of a finite threshold for the union-find decoder | Satoshi Yoshida, Ethan Lake and Hayata Yamasaki |
| Minimum Weight Decoding in the Colour Code is NP-hard | Mark Walters and Mark Turner |
| Reinforcement Learning Control of Quantum Error Correction | Volodymyr Sivak |
| Scalable quantum error correction tailored for a heavy-hex qubit array | Seok-Hyung Lee, Xanda Kolesnikow, Jun Zen Chen, Evan Hockings, Campbell McLauchlan, Georgia Nixon, Tom Scruby, Stephen Bartlett, Robin Harper and Ben Brown |
| Computing with many encoded logical qubits beyond break-even | Shival Dasu, Matt DeCross, Andrew Guo, Ali Lavasani, Jan Behrends, Asmae Benhemou, Yi-Hsiang Chen, Karl Mayer, Chris N. Self, Selwyn Simsek, Basudha Srivastava, M. S. Allman, Jake Arkinstall, Justin G. Bohnet, Nathaniel Q. Burdick, J.P. Campora III, Alex Chernoguzov, Samuel F. Cooper, Robert D. Delaney, Joan M. Dreiling, Brian Estey, Caroline Figgatt, Cameron Foltz, John P. Gaebler, Alex Hall, Craig A. Holliman, Ali A. Husain, Akhil Isanaka, Colin J. Kennedy, Yuga Kodama, Nikhil Kotibhaskar, Nathan K. Lysne, Ivaylo S. Madjarov, Michael Mills, Alistair R. Milne, Brian Neyenhuis, Annie J. Park, Anthony Ransford, Adam P. Reed, Steven J. Sanders, Charles H. Baldwin, David Hayes, Ben Criger, Andrew Potter and David Amaro |
| Efficient Simulation and Modeling of Quantum Error Correction with Small Markovian Errors | Jordan Hines, Corey Ostrove, Kenneth Rudinger, Stefan Seritan, Kevin Young, Robin Blume-Kohout and Timothy Proctor |
| In-situ benchmarking of fault-tolerant quantum circuits | Xiao Xiao, Dominik Hangleiter, Dolev Bluvstein, Mikhail Lukin and Michael Gullans |
Tuesday, June 9th, 2026
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| Fault Tolerance by Construction | Benjamin Rodatz, Boldizsár Poór and Aleks Kissinger |
| Symmetric Self-Dual Quantum Codes on High Dimensional Expanders | Kyle Gulshen and Tali Kaufman |
| Syndrome Extraction Circuits with Near-Optimal Depths for Practical Quantum Error Correcting Code Families | Daniel Tan, J. Pablo Bonilla Ataides, Varun Menon, Jin Ming Koh, Andrei Diaconu and Mikhail Lukin |
| Quantum Weight Reduction with Layer Codes | Andrew C Yuan, Nouédyn Baspin and Dominic J. Williamson |
| Fail fast: techniques to probe rare events in quantum error correction | Michael Beverland, Malcolm Carroll, Andrew Cross and Theodore Yoder |
| Decoding Correlated Errors in Quantum LDPC Codes | Arshpreet Singh Maan, Francisco Miguel Garcia Herrero, Alexandru Paler and Valentin Savin |
| Check-weight-constrained quantum codes: Bounds and examples | Lily Wang, Andy Liu, Ray Li, Aleksander Kubica and Shouzhen Gu |
Wednesday, June 10th, 2026
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| Magic state cultivation on a superconducting quantum processor | Emma Rosenfeld, Craig Gidney, Gabrielle Roberts, Alexis Morvan, Nathan Lacroix, Dvir Kafri, Jeffrey Marshall, Ming Li, Volodymyr Sivak, Alexandre Bourassa and Kevin Satzinger |
| Experimental Demonstration of High-Fidelity Logical Magic States from Code Switching | Lucas Daguerre, Robin Blume-Kohout, Natalie C. Brown, David Hayes and Isaac H. Kim |
| Magic state distillation via codes over binary extension fields | Anqi Gong, Christopher Pattison, Patrick Rall and Adam Wills |
| Transversal Gates at Arbitrary Levels of the Clifford Hierarchy in 2D Topological Codes | Ryohei Kobayashi, Guanyu Zhu, Po-Shen Hsin, Alison Warman and Sakura Schafer-Nameki |
| Hybrid Lattice Surgery: Non-Clifford Gates via Non-Abelian Surface Codes | Sheng-Jie Huang, Alison Warman, Sakura Schafer-Nameki and Yanzhu Chen |
| Advantage in distributed quantum computing with slow interconnects, and experiments on a monolithic QPU | Aharon Brodutch, Evan Dobbs, Gregory Baimetov, Edwin Tham and Nicolas Delfosse |
| Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation with Merged Color Codes | Yunzhe Zheng, Rui Chao, Aleksander Kubica and Adam Paetznick |
| Over 10x Denser Fault Tolerance using Boundary-Connected Modules | Oscar Higgott, Hasan Sayginel, Matt McEwen, Craig Gidney, Lei Zhang, Francisco Heras and Johannes Bausch |
| Macromux: scalable postselection for high-threshold fault-tolerant quantum computation | Patrick Birchall, Jacob Bridgeman, Chris Dawson, Terry Farrelly, Ye-Hua Liu, Naomi Nickerson, Mihir Pant, Sam Roberts, Karthik Seetharam and David Tuckett |
| Efficient magic-state generation with quantum tricycle codes | Varun Menon, J. Pablo Bonilla Ataides, Rohan Mehta, Andi Gu, Daniel Bochen Tan and Mikhail Lukin |
Thursday, June 11th, 2026
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| QGPU: Parallel logic in quantum LDPC codes | Boren Gu, Andy Zeyi Liu, Armanda O. Quintavalle, Qian Xu, Jens Eisert and Joschka Roffe |
| Batched high-rate logical operations for quantum LDPC codes | Qian Xu, Harry Zhou, Dolev Bluvstein, Madelyn Cain, Marcin Kalinowski, John Preskil, Mikhail Lukin and Nishad Maskara |
| No-Go Theorem on Fault Tolerant Gadgets for Multiple Logical Qubits | Aranya Chakraborty and Daniel Gottesman |
| Constant-Overhead Addressable Gates via Single-Shot Code Switching | Louis Golowich, Kathleen Chang and Guanyu Zhu |
| Transversal Dimension Jump for Product qLDPC Codes | Christine Li, John Preskill and Qian Xu |
| Constant-Time QLDPC Code Surgery: Formulation and Constructions | Kathleen Chang, Alexander Cowtan, Zhiyang He, Tomas Jochym-O’Connor, Dominic Williamson, Theodore Yoder and Guanyu Zhu |
| Non-Abelian Quantum Low-Density Parity Check Codes and Non-Clifford Operations from Gauging Logical Gates via Measurements | Maine Christos, Chiu-Fan Bowen Lo, Vedika Khemani and Rahul Sahay |
| Entangling logical qubits without physical operations | Shayan Majidy, Jin Ming Koh, Anqi Gong, Andrei Diaconu, Daniel Tan, Alexandra Geim, Michael Gullans, Norman Yao and Mikhail Lukin |
Friday, June 12th, 2026
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| Universal quantum computation with group surface codes | Naren Manjunath, Vieri Mattei, Apoorv Tiwari and Tyler Ellison |
| Ising on the donut: Regimes of topological quantum error correction from statistical mechanics | Lucas English, Sam Roberts, Stephen Bartlett, Andrew Doherty and Dominic Williamson |
| Exact learning of quantum noise with tensor networks | Nicola Pancotti and Krysta Svore |
| Efficient learning of logical noise from syndrome data | Han Zheng, Chia-Tung Chu, Senrui Chen, Argyris Giannisis Manes, Su-un Lee, Sisi Zhou and Liang Jiang |
| Quantum advantages for syndrome-aware noisy logical observable estimation | Kento Tsubouchi, Hyukgun Kwon, Liang Jiang and Nobuyuki Yoshioka |
| Linear-Time Encodable and Decodable Quantum Error-Correcting Codes | Adam Wills, Ting-Chun Lin, Rachel Zhang and Min-Hsiu Hsieh |
| Partial Self-Correction in Layer Codes | Dominic Williamson |
| Optimal Decoding with the Worm | Zac Tobias, Nikolas Breuckmann and Benedikt Placke |
| Quantum computing with anyons is fault-tolerant | Anasuya Lyons and Benjamin J. Brown |
| Efficient high-threshold decoding for concatenated quantum Hamming codes with near-optimal effective distance | Chao Zhang, Zipeng Wu, Jiahui Wu and Shilin Huang |
List of Accepted Posters
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