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View SchemaA two reservoir model of quantum error correction
| Authors | James P. Clemens, Julio Gea-Banacloche |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0508155 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0508155 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.73.022337 |
Abstract
We consider a two reservoir model of quantum error correction with a hot bath causing errors in the qubits and a cold bath cooling the ancilla qubits to a fiducial state. We consider error correction protocols both with and without measurement of the ancilla state. The error correction acts as a kind of refrigeration process to maintain the data qubits in a low entropy state by periodically moving the entropy to the ancilla qubits and then to the cold reservoir. We quantify the performance of the error correction as a function of the reservoir temperatures and cooling rate by means of the fidelity and the residual entropy of the data qubits. We also make a comparison with the continuous quantum error correction model of Sarovar and Milburn [Phys. Rev. A 72 012306].
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