{ "id": "1207.6131", "version": "v2", "published": "2012-07-25T21:01:54.000Z", "updated": "2012-11-10T22:29:49.000Z", "title": "Sufficient condition on noise correlations for scalable quantum computing", "authors": [ "John Preskill" ], "comment": "13 pages, 1 figure. (v2) Minor corrections and clarifications", "journal": "Quant. Inf. Comput. 13, 181-194 (2013)", "categories": [ "quant-ph", "cond-mat.other" ], "abstract": "I study the effectiveness of fault-tolerant quantum computation against correlated Hamiltonian noise, and derive a sufficient condition for scalability. Arbitrarily long quantum computations can be executed reliably provided that noise terms acting collectively on k system qubits are sufficiently weak, and decay sufficiently rapidly with increasing k and with increasing spatial separation of the qubits.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2012-11-10T22:29:49.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "sufficient condition", "scalable quantum computing", "noise correlations", "fault-tolerant quantum computation", "arbitrarily long quantum computations" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 13, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2012arXiv1207.6131P" } } }