Thermodynamic stability criteria for a quantum memory based on stabilizer and subsystem codes

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Chesi, Stefano ^a   Loss, Daniel ^a   Bravyi, Sergey ^b   Terhal, Barbara M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; EXPECTATION VALUES; GENERAL UPPER BOUND; LOGICAL OPERATORS; MARKOVIAN MASTER EQUATION; NONZERO TEMPERATURE; QUANTUM MEMORIES; RELAXATION RATES; SPATIAL DIMENSION; SYMMETRY-BREAKING FIELD; THERMAL STABILITY; THERMODYNAMIC LIMITS; UPPER BOUND;

MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

STABILITY CRITERIA;

EID: 77949537092     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/2/025013     Document Type: Article

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