--- title: One-shot distillation with constant overhead using catalysts description: A new theoretical framework demonstrates how quantum catalysts — auxiliary systems unchanged before and after a process — can reduce the overhead of one-shot... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/one-shot-distillation-with-constant-overhead-using-catalysts-o209k1mlw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: One-shot distillation with constant overhead using catalysts | daily.dev og:description: A new theoretical framework demonstrates how quantum catalysts — auxiliary systems unchanged before and after a process — can reduce the overhead of one-shot... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/one-shot-distillation-with-constant-overhead-using-catalysts-o209k1mlw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/O209k1MLw.png og:image:alt: One-shot distillation with constant overhead using catalysts og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # One-shot distillation with constant overhead using catalysts **[Nature](https://daily.dev/sources/nature)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A new theoretical framework demonstrates how quantum catalysts — auxiliary systems unchanged before and after a process — can reduce the overhead of one-shot quantum resource distillation to a constant, overcoming the established logarithmic lower bound. Applied to magic state distillation, the catalysis method addresses the diverging batch size problem in code-based low-overhead protocols, enabling arbitrary reduction of protocol size for any desired accuracy. The work also reveals a tunable spacetime trade-off between overhead and success probability, and extends catalysis techniques to dynamical quantum resources, showing that channel mutual information governs one-shot catalytic channel transformation. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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