Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2002-06-11
Physics
Quantum Physics
An expanded presentation of the analytic methods and results from quant-ph/0111003; 13 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.66.032304
When a logical qubit is protected using a quantum error-correcting code, the net effect of coding, decoherence (a physical channel acting on qubits in the codeword) and recovery can be represented exactly by an effective channel acting directly on the logical qubit. In this paper we describe a procedure for deriving the map between physical and effective channels that results from a given coding and recovery procedure. We show that the map for a concatenation of codes is given by the composition of the maps for the constituent codes. This perspective leads to an efficient means for calculating the exact performance of quantum codes with arbitrary levels of concatenation. We present explicit results for single-bit Pauli channels. For certain codes under the symmetric depolarizing channel, we use the coding maps to compute exact threshold error probabilities for achievability of perfect fidelity in the infinite concatenation limit.
Doherty Andrew C.
Mabuchi Hideo
Rahn Benjamin
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