Towards fault-tolerant quantum computing with trapped ions

Nature Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 463-466

  Benhelm, Jan ^b   Kirchmair, Gerhard ^b   Roos, Christian F ^a   Blatt, Rainer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; ERROR CORRECTION; FAULT TOLERANCE; LASER BEAMS; LOGIC GATES; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; QUANTUM NOISE; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUBITS; TRAPPED IONS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATED LASER BEAM; COMPUTATIONAL OVERHEADS; FAULT-TOLERANT COMPUTATION; FAULT-TOLERANT QUANTUM COMPUTING; LASER-ION COUPLING; MAXIMALLY ENTANGLED STATE; QUANTUM ERROR CORRECTIONS; QUANTUM LOGIC GATE;

IONS;

EID: 44849093451     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys961     Document Type: Article

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