Assessing the Progress of Trapped-Ion Processors Towards Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation
A. Bermúdez, Xiaosi Xu, Ramil Nigmatullin, Joe O’Gorman, Vlad Negnevitsky, Philipp Claudius Schindler, Thomas Monz, Ulrich Poschinger, Cornelius Hempel, Jonathan Home, Ferdinand Schmidt‐Kaler, Michael J. Biercuk, R. Blatt, Simon C. Benjamin, Markus Michael Müller · Physical Review X · 2017
As small prototype quantum processors progress to large-scale, fault-tolerant computers, it is increasingly necessary to quantitatively assess the performance of quantum error correction. A new benchmark offers just such an assessment of trapped-ion quantum processors.