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View SchemaHow Quantum Computers Can Fail
| Authors | Gil Kalai |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0607021 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0607021 |
Abstract
We propose and discuss two postulates on the nature of errors in highly correlated noisy physical stochastic systems. The first postulate asserts that errors for a pair of substantially correlated elements are themselves substantially correlated. The second postulate asserts that in a noisy system with many highly correlated elements there will be a strong effect of error synchronization. These postulates appear to be damaging for quantum computers.
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