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A blueprint for fault-tolerant quantum computation with Rydberg atoms

James M. Auger, Silvia Bergamini, Dan E. Browne

Year
2017
Journal
arXiv preprint
DOI
arXiv:1707.06498
arXiv
1707.06498

We present a blueprint for building a fault-tolerant universal quantum computer with Rydberg atoms. Our scheme, which is based on the surface code, uses individually-addressable optically-trapped atoms as qubits and exploits electromagnetically induced transparency to perform the multi-qubit gates required for error correction and computation. We discuss the advantages and challenges of using Rydberg atoms to build such a quantum computer, and we perform error correction simulations to obtain an error threshold for our scheme. Our findings suggest that Rydberg atoms are a promising candidate for quantum computation, but gate fidelities need to improve before fault-tolerant universal quantum computation can be achieved.

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Proceedings 9th Workshop on Quantum Physics and Logic

Ross Duncan, Prakash Panangaden

Year
2014
Journal
arXiv preprint
DOI
arXiv:1407.8427
arXiv
1407.8427

This volume contains the proceedings of the ninth workshop on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL2012) which took place in Brussels from the 10th to the 12th of October 2012. QPL2012 brought together researchers working on mathematical foundations of quantum physics, quantum computing, and spatio-temporal causal structures. The particular focus was on the use of logical tools, ordered algebraic and category-theoretic structures, formal languages, semantical techniques, and other computer science methods for the study of physical behaviour in general.

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