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Physicists Design New System for Stopping ‘Leaks’ in Quantum Computers

July 26, 2018 by Editor
TOPICS: Quantum ComputingQuantum PhysicsQubitsYale University

By JIM SHELTON, YALE UNIVERSITY JULY 25, 2018

Yale researchers have designed a new system to keep tomorrow’s quantum computers from “leaking.”

Large-scale quantum computers are still years away, but it is well known that they will need error correction. All of the components in a quantum computer are connected in a fragile, entangled state that allows a quantum computer to solve problems that would be impossible on a classical computer. Because of this entanglement, an error in just one bit of quantum information, called a qubit — or even the act of measuring a qubit — can collapse the entire enterprise.

Unfortunately, researchers say, the process of correcting errors is itself faulty and can further corrupt the information contained in qubits.Image result for Physicists Design New System for Stopping ‘Leaks’ in Quantum Computers

“The only way a quantum computer can work is if its ‘logical’ qubits are constantly monitored by ‘ancillary’ qubits, which ensure logical errors are detected and corrected before they can affect the computation,” said Yale postdoctoral associate Serge Rosenblum, co-lead author of a new study published in the journal Science.

Ancillary qubits have already been shown to correct logical errors, but their use so far has been limited because errors in the ancillary qubits can “leak” to the logical qubits, thereby introducing more errors than they’re able to fix. The Yale team solves this problem by making its system fault tolerant — meaning that errors in the ancillary qubits aren’t able to leak over to the logical qubits. Fault tolerance prevents faulty ancillary qubits from collapsing the logical quantum state.

“Using this method, the chance of catastrophic failure during error detection has been reduced by a factor of five,” Rosenblum said.

Co-lead author Philip Reinhold, a graduate student, said fault tolerance “essentially amounts to making a robust system out of faulty parts. It opens the way for error correction that increases the fidelity of quantum computation.”

Rosenblum and Reinhold work in the Yale lab of Robert Schoelkopf, the study’s principal investigator.

Additional authors of the study are Liang Jiang and Luigi Frunzio from Yale and Mazyar Mirrahimi from the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation.

Yale researchers are at the forefront of efforts to develop the first fully useful quantum computers, which have the potential to solve certain problems orders of magnitude faster than today’s supercomputers. Yale’s quantum computing research includes pioneering work using superconducting circuits.

This research was supported by the U.S. Army Research Office.

Publication: S. Rosenblum, et al., “Fault-tolerant detection of a quantum error,” Science 20 Jul 2018: Vol. 361, Issue 6399, pp. 266-270; DOI: 10.1126/science.aat3996

Source: Scitechdaily.com

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