Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation

Abstract

I give a brief overview of fault-tolerant quantum computation, with an emphasis on recent work and open questions.

6 pages, prepared for special issue of Physics in Canada. v2 has typo corrections, and minor clarifications and updates to text and references

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• An Upper Bound to the Number of Gates on Single Qubit within One Error-Correction Period of Quantum Computation