UMass Amherst team helps demonstrate spontaneous quantum error correction

EurekAlert  February 11, 2021 Existing demonstrations of quantum correction codes (QEC) are hardware intensive and prone to introducing and propagating errors. A team of researchers in the US (UMass Amherst, Northwestern University) encoded a logical qubit in Schrödinger cat-like multiphoton states of a superconducting cavity and demonstrated a corrective dissipation process that stabilizes an error-syndrome operator, the photon number parity. Implemented with continuous-wave control fields only, this passive protocol protects the quantum information by autonomously correcting single-photon-loss errors and boosts the coherence time of the bosonic qubit by over a factor of two. QEC is realized in a modest hardware […]