Optical implementation of a unitarily correctable code
K. M. Schreiter, Aron Pasieka, Rainer Kaltenbaek, K. J. Resch, David W. Kribs · Physical Review A · 2009
Noise poses a challenge for any real-world implementation in quantum information science. The theory of quantum error correction deals with this problem via methods to encode and recover quantum information in a way that is resilient against that noise. Unitarily correctable codes are an error correction technique wherein a single unitary recovery operation is applied without the need for an ancilla Hilbert space. Here, we present an optical implementation of a nontrivial unitarily correctable code for a noisy quantum channel with no decoherence-free subspaces or noiseless subsystems. We show that recovery of our initial states is achieved with high fidelity $(\ensuremath{\ge}0.97)$, quantitatively proving the efficacy of this unitarily correctable code.