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John Preskill

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Selected writings

On quantum error correction:

• John Preskill, Reliable Quantum Computers, Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. A454 (1998) 385-410 (arXiv:quant-ph/9705031)

• 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)

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)

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)

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