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New limits on fault-tolerant quantum computation (2006)

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Title New limits on fault-tolerant quantum computation
Published in 47th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, p.411-419.
Author Buhrman, H.M.; Cleve, R.; Laurent, M.; Linden, N.; Schrijver, A.; Unger, F.P.
Date 2006
Type conference paper
Summary We show that quantum circuits cannot be made fault-tolerant against a depolarizing noise level of approximately 45%, thereby improving on a previous bound of 50% (due to Razborov). Our precise quantum circuit model enables perfect gates from the Clifford group (CNOT, Hadamard, S, X, Y, Z) and arbitrary additional one-qubit gates that are subject to that much depolarizing noise. We prove that this set of gates cannot be universal for arbitrary (even classical) computation, from which the upper bound on the noise threshold for fault-tolerant quantum computation follows.
Publication http://dare.uva.nl/record/223212
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Persistent Identifier urn:nbn:nl:ui:29-223212
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Repository University of Amsterdam
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