{"id":148920,"date":"2022-10-26T14:24:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T19:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/graphs-may-prove-key-in-search-for-holy-grail-of-quantum-error-correction"},"modified":"2022-10-26T14:24:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T19:24:41","slug":"graphs-may-prove-key-in-search-for-holy-grail-of-quantum-error-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/graphs-may-prove-key-in-search-for-holy-grail-of-quantum-error-correction","title":{"rendered":"Graphs may prove key in search for Holy Grail of quantum error correction"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In February 2019, JQI Fellow Alicia Koll\u00e1r, who is also an assistant professor of physics at UMD, bumped into Adrian Chapman, then a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Sydney, at a quantum information conference. Although the two came from very different scientific backgrounds, they quickly discovered that their research had a surprising commonality. They both shared an interest in graph theory, a field of math that deals with points and the connections between them.<\/p>\n

Chapman found graphs through his work in quantum error correction <\/a>\u2014a field that deals with protecting fragile quantum information from errors in an effort to build ever-larger quantum computers. He was looking for new ways to approach a long-standing search for the Holy Grail of quantum error correction: a way of encoding quantum information that is resistant to errors by construction and doesn\u2019t require active correction. Koll\u00e1r had been pursuing new work in graph theory to describe her photon-on-a-chip experiments, but some of her results turned out to be the missing piece in Chapman\u2019s puzzle.<\/p>\n

Their ensuing collaboration resulted in a new tool that aids in the search for new quantum error correction schemes\u2014including the Holy Grail of self-correcting quantum error correction. They published their findings recently in the journal Physical Review X Quantum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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