Fault-tolerant quantum computation versus Gaussian noise
Quantum Physics
2009-03-17 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Superconductivity
Abstract
We study the robustness of a fault-tolerant quantum computer subject to Gaussian non-Markovian quantum noise, and we show that scalable quantum computation is possible if the noise power spectrum satisfies an appropriate "threshold condition." Our condition is less sensitive to very-high-frequency noise than previously derived threshold conditions for non-Markovian noise.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0810.4953,
title = {Fault-tolerant quantum computation versus Gaussian noise},
author = {Hui Khoon Ng and John Preskill},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.4953},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
30 pages, 6 figures