IEEE Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC)

Novel Encoding method for Quantum Error Correction

Swathi Mummadi, Bhawana Rudra

Published Jan 26, 2022• 22 citations

Abstract

Quantum error correction plays a vital role in the Quantum information process. Nowadays, the research has been increased in quantum technology and is being applied in various applications like secure communications, finance, machine learning, drug analysis and etc. But the quantum information process is difficult compared to the classical due to the challenges in quantum technology like no-cloning theorem, decoherence, and the difficulty in quantum states measurement. Thus the error rate is high and it is not possible to build a quantum computer without an error detection and correction mechanism. In this paper, we are discussing various error correction methods and proposing a novel encoding method for quantum error correction.

DOI: 10.1109/ccwc54503.2022.9720880

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