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The Second International Conference on Quantum Error Correction (QEC11) will be held Dec. 5-9, 2011 at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California USA. The Second International Conference on Quantum Error Correction, hosted by the USC Center for … Continue reading →
O brave new quantum world!
For fun, I tallied year-by-year the number of arxiv abstracts containing the exact phrase “quantum error correction”. The resulting distribution is bimodal, with one peak in the years 1996-7, and another peak in the years 2007-8 (the lexical data is appended)
Broadly speaking, the first “quantum error correction” usage peak is associated to the discovery of Quantum Error Correction by Coding (arXiv:quant-ph/9511003, Chuang and LaFlamme) and that Good Quantum Error-Correcting Codes Exist (arXiv:quant-ph/9512032, Calderbank and Shor).
The second “quantum error correction” usage peak appears to largely associated to the integration of quantum error correction into the general theory of error correction, and more broadly, into general theories of informatic flow and thermodynamical processes in many STEM enterprises. See for example Belief propagation algorithm for computing correlation functions in finite-temperature quantum many-body systems (arXiv:0710.4304, Poulin and Bilgin).
Strikingly scarce in the recent arxiv literature are concrete proposals to design, build and test working quantum computers capable of useful calculations.
Will we ever see a third “quantum error correction” usage peak? … one that is associated to working, practical quantum computers?
Even if the answer is “no” … even if practical quantum computation is perceived to be unforeseeably distant in the future … it is becoming evident that dynamical aspects of quantum error correction not only are are a fertile research topic, but possibly have fundamental relevance to a broad span of STEM enterprises.
No doubt these issues will be much-discussed at QEC11 … it looks like an interesting conference to me.
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2010 (end) 46 “quantum error correction” articles
2009 43
2008 55
2007 54
2006 36
2005 34
2004 28
2003 31
2002 21
2001 11
2000 17
1999 17
1998 17
1997 22
1996 34
1995 (start) 2 articles