Quantum error correction for quantum memories

BM Terhal - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
Active quantum error correction using qubit stabilizer codes has emerged as a promising,
but experimentally challenging, engineering program for building a universal quantum …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering the quantum-classical interface of solid-state qubits

DJ Reilly - npj Quantum Information, 2015 - nature.com
Spanning a range of hardware platforms, the building-blocks of quantum processors are
today sufficiently advanced to begin work on scaling-up these systems into complex …

State preservation by repetitive error detection in a superconducting quantum circuit

J Kelly, R Barends, AG Fowler, A Megrant, E Jeffrey… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Quantum computing becomes viable when a quantum state can be protected from
environment-induced error. If quantum bits (qubits) are sufficiently reliable, errors are sparse …

[HTML][HTML] Demonstration of a quantum error detection code using a square lattice of four superconducting qubits

AD Córcoles, E Magesan, SJ Srinivasan… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The ability to detect and deal with errors when manipulating quantum systems is a
fundamental requirement for fault-tolerant quantum computing. Unlike classical bits that are …

A surface code quantum computer in silicon

CD Hill, E Peretz, SJ Hile, MG House, M Fuechsle… - Science …, 2015 - science.org
The exceptionally long quantum coherence times of phosphorus donor nuclear spin qubits
in silicon, coupled with the proven scalability of silicon-based nano-electronics, make them …

Cryogenic control architecture for large-scale quantum computing

JM Hornibrook, JI Colless, ID Conway Lamb… - Physical Review …, 2015 - APS
Solid-state qubits have recently advanced to the level that enables them, in principle, to be
scaled up into fault-tolerant quantum computers. As these physical qubits continue to …

Majorana fermion surface code for universal quantum computation

S Vijay, TH Hsieh, L Fu - Physical Review X, 2015 - APS
We introduce an exactly solvable model of interacting Majorana fermions realizing Z 2
topological order with a Z 2 fermion parity grading and lattice symmetries permuting the …

ScaffCC: Scalable compilation and analysis of quantum programs

A JavadiAbhari, S Patil, D Kudrow, J Heckey, A Lvov… - Parallel Computing, 2015 - Elsevier
We present ScaffCC, a scalable compilation and analysis framework based on LLVM
(Lattner and Adve, 2004), which can be used for compiling quantum computing applications …

Circuit-QED-based scalable architectures for quantum information processing with superconducting qubits

PM Billangeon, JS Tsai, Y Nakamura - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We discuss different ways of generating entanglement in the original picture of circuit QED
(XcQED) and several restrictions that arise in the context of a large-scale quantum …

Fractional (Chern and topological) insulators

T Neupert, C Chamon, T Iadecola, LH Santos… - Physica …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We review various features of interacting Abelian topological phases of matter in two spatial
dimensions, placing particular emphasis on fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) and fractional …