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Implementation of the Five Qubit Error Correction Benchmark

E. Knill, R. Laflamme, R. Martinez, C. Negrevergne

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0101034

Abstract

The smallest quantum code that can correct all one-qubit errors is based on five qubits. We experimentally implemented the encoding, decoding and error-correction quantum networks using nuclear magnetic resonance on a five spin subsystem of labeled crotonic acid. The ability to correct each error was verified by tomography of the process. The use of error-correction for benchmarking quantum networks is discussed, and we infer that the fidelity achieved in our experiment is sufficient for preserving entanglement.

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