A new class of designs which protect against quantum jumps

Designs, Codes, and Cryptography

Volumn 29, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 51-70

  Beth, Thomas ^a   Charnes, Christopher ^a,b   Grassl, Markus ^a   Alber, Gernot ^c   Delgado, Aldo ^c   Mussinger, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Large sets; Partial designs; Quantum error correction; Resolvable designs

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; ERROR CORRECTION; QUANTUM THEORY;

QUANTUM COMPUTERS;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 0038042319     PISSN: 09251022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024188005329     Document Type: Conference Paper

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