Fault-tolerant computing with biased-noise superconducting qubits: A case study

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Aliferis, P ^a   Brito, F ^a   DiVincenzo, D P ^a   Preskill, J ^b   Steffen, M ^a   Terhal, B M ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS);

CNOT GATES; ENCODING SCHEMES; ERROR RATES; FAULT-TOLERANT COMPUTING; FLUX QUBIT; NOISE CHARACTERISTICS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PHASE ERRORS; PULSED OPERATIONS; SUPERCONDUCTING QUBITS;

ERRORS;

EID: 62649167852     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/1/013061     Document Type: Article

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