Experimental implementation of a concatenated quantum error-correcting code

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 13, 2005, Pages

  Boulant, Nicolas ^a   Viola, Lorenza ^b   Fortunato, Evan M ^a   Cory, David G ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCATENATED CODES; ERROR CORRECTING CODES; PHASE ERRORS; QUANTUM INFORMATION PROCESSING (QIP);

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ERROR CORRECTION; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MARKOV PROCESSES; QUANTUM THEORY;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 18144403544     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.130501     Document Type: Article

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