2005/07/18 by Daniel Gottesman · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #quant-ph
published as Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics, eds. J.-P. Francoise, G. L. Naber and S. T. Tsou, Oxford: Elsevier, 2006 (ISBN 978-0-1251-2666-3), vol. 4, pp. 196-201 · 8 pages, to appear in Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Physics
arxiv created 2005/07/18 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
I give an overview of the basic concepts behind quantum error correction and quantum fault tolerance. This includes the quantum error correction conditions, stabilizer codes, CSS codes, transversal gates, fault-tolerant error correction, and the threshold theorem.