Threshold Estimate for Fault Tolerant Quantum Computation

1996/12/08 by Zalka, Christof · 1 citation
#FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9612028

Abstract

I make a rough estimate of the accuracy threshold for fault tolerant quantum computing with concatenated codes. First I consider only gate errors and use the depolarizing channel error model. I will follow P.Shor (quant-ph/9505011) for fault tolerant error correction (FTEC) and the fault tolerant implementation of elementary operations on states encoded by the 7-qubit code. A simple computer simulation suggests a threshold for gate errors of the order ε≈ 10^-3 or better. I also give a simple argument that the threshold for memory errors is about 10 times smaller, thus ε≈ 10^-4.

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