QC Design Publishes Plaquette Framework for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer Design

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QC Design has published a paper describing Plaquette, its hardware-aware software platform for designing and evaluating fault-tolerant quantum computers.

Plaquette models real hardware imperfections directly, allowing developers to estimate logical error rates without relying solely on simplified Pauli noise approximations.

The framework was validated across superconducting, neutral-atom, and trapped-ion hardware models and is now available on arXiv.

Press release – QC Design today announced the publication of “Plaquette: A hardware-aware design platform for fault-tolerant quantum computers”, the paper presenting the theoretical framework and software suite behind its flagship product. The paper describes how Plaquette computes the logical performance of fault-tolerant architectures directly from the physics of a device’s actual imperfections, and is now available on arXiv.