{"id":223,"date":"2005-06-09T13:01:13","date_gmt":"2005-06-09T03:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/?p=223"},"modified":"2005-06-09T13:01:13","modified_gmt":"2005-06-09T03:01:13","slug":"new-paper-operator-quantum-error-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/new-paper-operator-quantum-error-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"New paper: Operator quantum error correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"archive\/papers\/0506069.ps\">new paper (postscript)<\/a>, joint with David Poulin, all about operator quantum error correction, a clever way (alas, not my idea!) of protecting quantum states against the effects of noise.  The paper provides several sets of easily checkable conditions (both algebraic and information-theoretic) characterizing when operator error-correction is feasible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Postscript:<\/strong> Dave Bacon has a just put out a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=934\">paper<\/a> related to operator quantum error-correction, constructing some physically motivated examples of self-correcting quantum memories.   This idea &#8211; that a quantum system can correct itself &#8211; is absolutely fascinating, and runs completely counter to the standard folk &#8220;wisdom&#8221; about quantum mechanics, namely that quantum states are delicate objects that are easily (and irreversibly) destroyed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new paper (postscript), joint with David Poulin, all about operator quantum error correction, a clever way (alas, not my idea!) of protecting quantum states against the effects of noise. The paper provides several sets of easily checkable conditions (both algebraic and information-theoretic) characterizing when operator error-correction is feasible. Postscript: Dave Bacon has a just&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/new-paper-operator-quantum-error-correction\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New paper: Operator quantum error correction<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}