Quantum Error Correction and Fault-Tolerance
Quantum Physics
2007-11-16 v1
Abstract
I give an overview of the basic concepts behind quantum error correction and quantum fault tolerance. This includes the quantum error correction conditions, stabilizer codes, CSS codes, transversal gates, fault-tolerant error correction, and the threshold theorem.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0507174,
title = {Quantum Error Correction and Fault-Tolerance},
author = {Daniel Gottesman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0507174},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
8 pages, to appear in Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Physics