Equation 2 · Part 1 · Error Correction Is the Whole Problem in Quantum Computing
Symbol psi
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psi is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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psi is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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The passage around this formula
cannot exist for all | , because unitarity preserves inner products and the required map does not. Wootters and Zurek established the point in 1982, in a paper whose title remains the cleanest statement of it [ 1 ] . There is no backup copy, no parity check computed by reading the data, no majority vote over three inspected replicas.
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