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View SchemaA Theory of Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation
| Authors | Daniel Gottesman |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9702029 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9702029 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.57.127 |
| Journal | Phys.Rev.A57:127,1998 |
Abstract
In order to use quantum error-correcting codes to actually improve the performance of a quantum computer, it is necessary to be able to perform operations fault-tolerantly on encoded states. I present a general theory of fault-tolerant operations based on symmetries of the code stabilizer. This allows a straightforward determination of which operations can be performed fault-tolerantly on a given code. I demonstrate that fault-tolerant universal computation is possible for any stabilizer code. I discuss a number of examples in more detail, including the five-qubit code.
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