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- Title
Experimental demonstration of topological error correction.
- Authors
Yao, Xing-Can; Wang, Tian-Xiong; Chen, Hao-Ze; Gao, Wei-Bo; Fowler, Austin G.; Raussendorf, Robert; Chen, Zeng-Bing; Liu, Nai-Le; Lu, Chao-Yang; Deng, You-Jin; Chen, Yu-Ao; Pan, Jian-Wei
- Abstract
Scalable quantum computing can be achieved only if quantum bits are manipulated in a fault-tolerant fashion. Topological error correction-a method that combines topological quantum computation with quantum error correction-has the highest known tolerable error rate for a local architecture. The technique makes use of cluster states with topological properties and requires only nearest-neighbour interactions. Here we report the experimental demonstration of topological error correction with an eight-photon cluster state. We show that a correlation can be protected against a single error on any quantum bit. Also, when all quantum bits are simultaneously subjected to errors with equal probability, the effective error rate can be significantly reduced. Our work demonstrates the viability of topological error correction for fault-tolerant quantum information processing.
- Subjects
QUANTUM information science; QUANTUM statistics; QUANTUM interference; CLUSTER set theory; PHOTON-photon interactions; TOPOLOGICAL groups
- Publication
Nature, 2012, Vol 482, Issue 7386, p489
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nature10770