PIRSA:21040003

Error Correction and Fault Tolerance for Quantum Computers

Shor, P. (2021). Error Correction and Fault Tolerance for Quantum Computers. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/21040003

Shor, Peter. Error Correction and Fault Tolerance for Quantum Computers. Perimeter Institute, Apr. 21, 2021, https://pirsa.org/21040003 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:21040003,
            doi = {10.48660/21040003},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/21040003},
            author = {Shor, Peter},
            keywords = {Other},
            language = {en},
            title = {Error Correction and Fault Tolerance for Quantum Computers},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2021},
            month = {apr},
            note = {PIRSA:21040003 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Peter Shor

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Mathematics

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Quantum computers need to manipulate quantum states, and the only ways we know of doing this are inherently noisy. Thus, if we are ever to be able to do long computations on quantum computers, we need to make them fault tolerant. The way we know how to do this currently is to use quantum error correcting codes. We will introduce error correcting codes and explain how they can be used to provide fault tolerance for quantum computers.