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Gottesman introduces the stabilizer formalism for quantum error correction

Apr 29, 1996

Daniel Gottesman describes quantum error-correcting codes through groups of operations that leave encoded states unchanged. His stabilizer method provides a systematic way to construct codes and analyze the errors they can correct.

Why it matters

The formalism gives researchers a common mathematical language for designing many of the codes used to protect quantum information.

Daniel Gottesman · Caltech

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