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Fault-tolerant quantum computation with asymmetric Bacon-Shor codes

Quantum Physics 2013-03-08 v2

Abstract

We develop a scheme for fault-tolerant quantum computation based on asymmetric Bacon-Shor codes, which works effectively against highly biased noise dominated by dephasing. We find the optimal Bacon-Shor block size as a function of the noise strength and the noise bias, and estimate the logical error rate and overhead cost achieved by this optimal code. Our fault-tolerant gadgets, based on gate teleportation, are well suited for hardware platforms with geometrically local gates in two dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.1211.1400,
  title  = {Fault-tolerant quantum computation with asymmetric Bacon-Shor codes},
  author = {Peter Brooks and John Preskill},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.1400},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

25 pages, 16 figures. (v2) Minor revisions

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