Fall 2022 — Issue 3, Volume 2
This is a special issue of 鶹ýӳ BITS featuring articles that examine how information theorists are helping the “second quantum revolution” and what potential opportunities in quantum computation lie ahead.
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Special Issue on Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
Quantum information was once a niche domain focused on foundational questions. It has grown into a broad research area with industrial, academic, and national research efforts around the world, but many foundational questions remain. The special issue papers consider cryptography and error correction from the viewpoint of quantum information and computation.
Author(s)
Kenneth R. Brown
Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Belief Propagation for Classical and Quantum Systems: Overview and Recent Results
This article reviews belief propagation (BP) for classical inference problems and describes its extension to quantum systems, which is known as BP with quant...
Author(s)
Christophe Piveteau
ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Joseph M. Renes
ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Conservation Laws and Quantum Error Correction: Toward a Generalized Matching Decoder
Decoding algorithms are essential to fault-tolerant quantum-computing architectures. In this perspective we explore decoding algorithms for the surface code;...
Author(s)
Benjamin J. Brown
T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM Quantum, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA