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Phys. Rev. A 60, R729–R732 (1999)

Computation on an error-avoiding quantum code and symmetrization

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Paolo Zanardi
Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (INFM)
Institute for Scientific Interchange (ISI) Foundation, Villa Gualino, Viale Settimio Severo 65, I-10133 Torino, Italy

Received 19 January 1999; published in the issue dated August 1999

Let H be the state space of a quantum computer coupled with the environment by a set of error operators spanning a Lie algebra L. Suppose L admits an error-avoiding quantum code, i.e., a subspace CH annihilated by L. We show that a universal set of gates over C is obtained by any generic pair of L-invariant gates. Such gates—if not available from the outset—can be obtained by resorting to a symmetrization with respect to the group generated by L. Any computation can then be performed completely within the coding decoherence-free subspace.

© 1999 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.60.R729
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.60.R729
PACS:
03.67.Lx, 03.65.Fd