Detecting bit-flip errors in a logical qubit using stabilizer measurements

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Riste D ^a   Poletto, S ^a   Huang, M Z ^a,b   Bruno, A ^a   Vesterinen, V ^a,c   Saira, O P ^a,d   Dicarlo, L ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM DOT; STABILIZING AGENT;

ERROR ANALYSIS; HARDWARE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

ARTICLE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; SUPERCONDUCTOR;

EID: 84928966982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7983     Document Type: Article

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