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Fault-Tolerant Postselected Quantum Computation: Threshold Analysis

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The schemes for fault-tolerant postselected quantum computation given in [Knill, Fault-Tolerant Postselected Quantum Computation: Schemes, http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0402171] are analyzed to determine their error-tolerance. The analysis is based on computer-assisted heuristics. It indicates that if classical and quantum communication delays are negligible, then scalable qubit-based quantum computation is possible with errors above 1% per elementary quantum gate.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0404104,
  title  = {Fault-Tolerant Postselected Quantum Computation: Threshold Analysis},
  author = {E. Knill},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0404104},
  year   = {2007}
}

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