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Title: Fault-tolerant thresholds for encoded ancillae with homogeneous errors

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131-1156 (United States)

I describe a procedure for calculating thresholds for quantum computation as a function of error model given the availability of ancillae prepared in logical states with independent, identically distributed errors. The thresholds are determined via a simple counting argument performed on a single qubit of an infinitely large Calderbank-Shor-Steane code. I give concrete examples of thresholds thus achievable for both Steane and Knill style fault-tolerant implementations and investigate their relation to threshold estimates in the literature.

OSTI ID:
20982068
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Vol. 75, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.75.022301; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1050-2947
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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