AT&T Quantum Computing Seminar


QUANTUM COMPUTATION
AND
QUANTUM ERROR CORRECTION

The next talk in our series will be:

Title:

Quantum Entanglement Purification

Speaker:

Gilles Brassard
University of Montreal

Place:

AT&T Laboratories
600 Mountain Avenue
Murray Hill, NJ
Murray Hill Building, Room: 2D-101

Time:

2:00 p.m.
Wednesday, November 27, 1996
Thanks to everyone for registering early AND arriving early.

ABSTRACT:

Entanglement is perhaps the most non-classical aspect of quantum mechanics. It is at the core of quantum teleportation and without it no nontrivial quantum computation would be possible. However, sharing long-lived entanglement between two distant observers is technologically challenging because of the fragility of quantum information.

After defining entanglement, I shall explain how it is possible for two observers to purify an initial supply of imperfect entanglement by means of local operations and the exchange of classical information. This technique can be used to assist in the faithful transmission of quantum information over an unreliable quantum channel.

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Document last modified on November 21, 1996