nLab John Preskill

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Selected writings

On vortex$\;$anyons:

• Hoi-Kwong Lo, John Preskill, Non-Abelian vortices and non-Abelian statistics, Phys. Rev. D 48 (1993) 4821 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.48.4821]

On topological quantum computation:

• R. Walter Ogburn, John Preskill, Topological Quantum Computation, in: Quantum Computing and Quantum Communications, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1509, Springer (1998) [doi:10.1007/3-540-49208-9_31]

On quantum error correction for fault-tolerant/reliable quantum computation:

• John Preskill, Fault-tolerant quantum computation, in: Introduction to Quantum Computation and Information, World Scientific (1998) [arXiv:quant-ph/9712048, doi:10.1142/3724]

• John Preskill, Reliable Quantum Computers, Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. A454 (1998) 385-410 $[$arXiv:quant-ph/9705031, doi:10.1098/rspa.1998.0167$]$

• Panos Aliferis, Daniel Gottesman, John Preskill, Quantum accuracy threshold for concatenated distance-3 codes, Quant. Inf. Comput. 6 (2006) 97-165 (arXiv:quant-ph/0504218)

and via adiabatic quantum computation:

• Andrew Childs, Edward Farhi, John Preskill, Robustness of adiabatic quantum computation, Phys.Rev. A 65 (2002) 012322 [arXiv:quant-ph/0108048, doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.65.012322]

On entanglement entropy as an indicator of topological phases of matter:

• Alexei Kitaev, John Preskill, Topological entanglement entropy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 (2006) 110404 (arXiv:hep-th/0510092)

On quantum computation:

• John Preskill, Quantum Computation, lecture notes (web)

  • On quantum circuits:

    Classical and quantum circuits (pdf)

Introducing the HaPPY code tensor network for discussion of holographic entanglement entropy and quantum error correction:

• Fernando Pastawski, Beni Yoshida, Daniel Harlow, John Preskill, Holographic quantum error-correcting codes: Toy models for the bulk/boundary correspondence, JHEP 06 (2015) 149 (arXiv:1503.06237)

Exposition:

• John Preskill, Is spacetime a quantum error-correcting code?, talk at KITP 2015 (pdf, pdf)

Highlighting the role of quantum entanglement in quantum computation and quantum supremacy (and introducing that term):

• John Preskill: Quantum computing and the entanglement frontier: pp. 63-80 in: The Theory of the Quantum World – Proceedings of the 25th Solvay Conference on Physics, World Scientific (2013) [arXiv:1203.5813, doi:10.1142/8674, slides: pdf]

More on quantum error correcting codes via holographic tensor networks:

• Fernando Pastawski, John Preskill, Code properties from holographic geometries, Phys. Rev. X 7, 021022 (2017) (arXiv:1612.00017)

On noisy intermediate-scale quantum computing:

• John Preskill, Quantum Computing in the NISQ era and beyond, Quantum 2018-08-06, volume 2, page 79 (arXiv:1801.00862, doi:10.22331/q-2018-08-06-79)

On the state of quantum information and quantum computation:

• John Preskill, The Physics of Quantum Information, talk at

  The Physics of Quantum Information, 28th Solvay Conference on Physics (2022) [arXiv:2208.08064[

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