Bounding Fault-Tolerant Thresholds for Purification and Quantum Computation

dc.creatorKay, Alastair
dc.date2007-05-30
dc.date2008-05-20
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:39:30Z
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dc.descriptionIn this paper, we place bounds on when it is impossible to purify a noisy two-qubit state if all the gates used in the purification protocol are subject to adversarial local, independent, noise. It is found that the gate operations must be subject to less than 5.3% error. An existing proof that purification is equivalent to error correction is used to show that this bound can also be applied to concatenated error correcting codes in the presence of noisy gates, and hence gives a limit to the tolerable error rate for a fault-tolerant quantum computer formed by concatenation. This is shown to apply also to the case where error detection and post-selection, as proposed by Knill, is used to enhance the threshold. We demonstrate the trade-off between gate/environmentally induced faulty rotations and qubit loss errors.
dc.description8 pages, 6 figures. published version
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0705.4360
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0705.4360
dc.identifierPhys. Rev. A 77, 052319 (2008)
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevA.77.052319
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/161196
dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.titleBounding Fault-Tolerant Thresholds for Purification and Quantum Computation
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