Fault-Tolerant Quantum Technologies

Organizers:

N. Breuckmann (University of Bristol), A. Quintavalle (Freie Universit�t Berlin), M. Vasmer (Perimeter Institute), C. Vuillot (Inria Nancy)

The FTQT 2026 workshop will bring together researchers exploring different techniques for tackling noise in quantum computation, following up on the previous 2016, 2020 and 2024 editions of FTQT. The workshop's goal is to accelerate the development of new theoretical tools to improve the performance, efficiency and practicality of fault-tolerance protocols. The resulting theoretical work will help developers of quantum technology hardware to overcome challenges posed by decoherence.

Topics of discussion include:

- LDPC codes
- Dynamical codes
- Fault-tolerant logical gates
- Experimental implementations of fault-tolerant protocols

The two-week workshop will have a light talk schedule with a small number of speakers, allowing plenty of time for collaborations and informal discussions. The programme will include invited talks.

The remainder of the talks will be self-organised during the workshop. Each day there will be an opportunity to propose a talk and the participants will be able to vote on which talks they wish to hear. The talks with the most votes will be scheduled for the following day.

To register for the workshop you must fill out the application form and submit a talk abstract (approx. 250 words). The abstract will be evaluated by the organizers in order to confirm that the applicant has sufficient research experience to take part fully in the workshop (but the participants will be free to propose a different talk during the workshop). Registration applications will be accepted on a first come first serve basis, but applications without an accompanying abstract will not be considered.

If you are comfortable, please indicate whether you belong to an underrepresented group by copying 'I belong to an underrepresented group in my field.' below your abstract. This is in order for us to ensure diversity, equity and inclusion.

Registration fee information

The registration fee for this conference is 450 eur.

The registration fee includes:

- organised bus transportation (reserve seat in advance)
- one reception buffet
- one coffee break with pastries a day
- use of the Centro de Ciencias facilities
- technical assistance and secretarial support

*Cancellation Policy*
A 30 euro charge will be applied for cancellations made up to 10 days before the conference start date.
A no refund policy will be applied to cancellations made after this date.

Bus transportation

The center provides free buses:
From Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Diagonal 686, Metro: L3 Palau Reial at 15:00h (Note that the bus stops opposite University of Barcelona, Facultat de Física i Química)

From Barcelona airport ('El Prat', Terminal T2A: on leaving exit, turn left and you will find a police building called 'Mossos d'Esquadra'.
Cross the road using the zebra crossing and turn left. The bus will stop there) at 15:30h.

Return buses:
From Benasque to Barcelona airport and then university, departure at 9:00h.
The trip by bus to Barcelona takes 4-5h. approximately. The trip by car only takes 3h 30m.

Bus trajectories and dates:
- Barcelona-Benasque, Aug 03.
- Benasque-Barcelona, Aug 14.