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Effective Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation with Slow Measurements

2006/07/31 by David P. DiVincenzo, Panos Aliferis · 7 citations
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Algorithm #Computation #Computational science #Computer engineering #Computer science #Distributed computing #Fault tolerance #Implementation #Obstacle #Physics #Quantum #Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum computer #Quantum mechanics #Scalability #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.98.020501

published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 (2007) 220501 · 9 pages, 11 figures. v2: small changes and reference additions

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Abstract

How important is fast measurement for fault-tolerant quantum computation? Using a combination of existing and new ideas, we argue that measurement times as long as even 1000 gate times or more have a very minimal effect on the quantum accuracy threshold. This shows that slow measurement, which appears to be unavoidable in many implementations of quantum computing, poses no essential obstacle to scalability.

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