Topic | Notes (modified) | ||
1 | 1/5 | The fault-tolerance problem | pdf (1/27) |
2 | 1/7 | Stabilizer codes | pdf (1/27) |
3 | 1/12 | General quantum error-correcting codes | pdf (1/27) |
4 | 1/14 | Stabilizer algebra, Threshold 1/2 for erasure errors | pdf (2/6) |
5 | 1/26 | Threshold 1/2 for erasure errors (recap) | pdf (1/29) |
6 | 1/28 | Fault-tolerant measurement and computation | pdf (1/29) |
7 | 2/2 | Fault-tolerant error correction | pdf (2/6) |
8 | 2/4 | Fault-tolerant ancilla preparation | pdf (2/6) |
9 | 2/9 | Bacon-Shor subsystem code | pdf (2/13) |
10 | 2/11 | Threshold for local stochastic noise | pdf (2/13) |
11 | 2/23 | AGP threshold for stochastic noise with shared bath, malignant set counting | pdf (2/26) |
12 | 2/25 | Universal set of fault-tolerant gate gadgets, magic states distillation, threshold upper bounds | pdf (2/26) |
13 | 3/2 | Threshold upper and lower bounds | pdf (3/18) |
14 | 3/4 |
Anyon models, for topological quantum computation
General TQC reading: Nayak et al. review article, Preskill's lecture notes, Ch. 9, SciAm, Stormer's Nobel lecture | pdf (3/5) |
15 | 3/9 | Topological QC equivalent to general QC | pdf (3/12) |
16 | 3/11 | Toric code | pdf (3/18) |
17 | 3/16 |
Higher-order-accurate dynamical decoupling (bang-bang control) Misc. refs.: 0107041, 0107059, 0408078, etc. | |
18 | 3/18 |
Upper bounds on quantum error-correcting codes | incomplete notes (3/18) |
19 | 3/23 |
Fault-tolerant quantum computation with the toric code | pdf (3/26) |
20 | 3/25 |
Turaev-Viro codes | pdf (3/26) |
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