Fault-tolerant quantum computation versus Gaussian noise

Hui Khoon Ng, John Preskill

Published 2008-10-27Version 1

We study the robustness of a fault-tolerant quantum computer subject to Gaussian non-Markovian quantum noise, and we show that scalable quantum computation is possible if the noise power spectrum satisfies an appropriate "threshold condition." Our condition is less sensitive to very-high-frequency noise than previously derived threshold conditions for non-Markovian noise.