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Quantum codes do not fix isotropic errors

Authors :
L. M. Pozo-Coronado
A. L. Fonseca de Oliveira
Jesús García López de Lacalle
Source :
Quantum Information Processing. 20
Publication Year :
2021
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021.

Abstract

In this work, we prove that quantum error correcting codes do not fix isotropic errors (Theorem 5), even assuming that their correction circuits do not introduce new errors. We say that a quantum code does not fix a quantum computing error if its application does not reduce the variance of the error. We also prove for isotropic errors that, if the correction circuit of a quantum code detects an error, the corrected logical m-qubit has uniform distribution (Theorem 3) and as a result, it already loses all the computing information.

Details

ISSN :
15731332 and 15700755
Volume :
20
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Quantum Information Processing
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........6184f6adbc109339ae7f90e8064221ee
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-020-02980-3