Decoherence and quantum error correction
P. L. Knight, Martin Bodo Plenio, Vlatko Vedral · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences · 1997
We discuss the effects of decoherence on fault–tolerant quantum computation and how it leads to accuracy thresholds required before arbitrarily computations can be performed. We examine the feasibility of achieving these thresholds in an ion trap realization when spontaneous emission is taken into account.