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Error correction for encoded quantum annealing

Quantum Physics 2016-05-25 v3

Abstract

Recently, Lechner, Hauke and Zoller [Science Advances, 1(9)e1500838, (2015)] have proposed a quantum annealing architecture, in which a classical spin glass with all-to-all connectivity is simulated by a spin glass with geometrically local interactions. We interpret this architecture as a classical error-correcting code, which is highly robust against weakly correlated bit-flip noise, and we analyze the code's performance using a belief-propagation decoding algorithm. Our observations may also apply to more general encoding schemes and noise models.

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@article{arxiv.1511.00004,
  title  = {Error correction for encoded quantum annealing},
  author = {Fernando Pastawski and John Preskill},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.00004},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

4 pages, 4 figure, We expanded the discussion of LDPC codes and belief propagation decoders to make the paper more self contained

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