Kernekoncepter
Quantum circuits with non-unitary noise channels have a fundamental limit on space overhead for fault tolerance.
Resumé
The article discusses the lower bound on space overhead for fault-tolerant quantum computation in the presence of non-unitary qubit channels. It highlights the limitations of noisy quantum circuits and the preservation of entanglement over time. The study focuses on separable quantum channels, contraction coefficients, and quantum capacity. Lemmas and theorems are presented to prove the fundamental limits of fault tolerance schemes against i.i.d. noise models modeled by non-unitary qubit channels.
Statistik
A recent work by Fawzi, Grospellier, and Leverrier (FOCS 2018) has shown that the space overhead can be asymptotically reduced to a constant independent of the circuit.
For any non-unitary qubit channel N, there is a lower bound on the number of physical qubits for circuits of length T and width n.
The quantum capacity Q(N) denotes the maximum rate at which a channel can reliably transmit quantum information.
The χ2-divergence is used as a measure to quantify how well two states can be distinguished from each other.
The trace-norm contraction coefficient is utilized to analyze how much a channel contracts distances between states.
Citater
"We prove an exponential upper bound on the maximal length of fault-tolerant quantum computation with amplitude damping noise."
"Fault-tolerant threshold theorem allows arbitrarily long computations with low overhead below a certain noise level."
"Our results apply to adaptive protocols composed of classical and quantum computation."