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Cover Image, Volume 115, Issue 19
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international journal of quantum chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.484
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1097-461X
pISSN - 0020-7608
DOI - 10.1002/qua.24984
Subject(s) - computer science , quantum , magic (telescope) , cover (algebra) , distillation , algorithm , chemistry , physics , quantum mechanics , mechanical engineering , organic chemistry , engineering
Distillation of pure substances from mixtures is a fundamental technique in chemistry. In analogy, higher fidelity quantum states can be distilled from many copies of low fidelity quantum states. The illustration imagines this distillation as a physical process. An example quantum circuit for magic state distillation is portrayed in the background. Mapping a quantum chemistry problem to a quantum computer involves the implementation of precise qubit rotations. The process of building precise rotations from noisy components requires fault‐tolerant procedures. On page 1296 (DOI: 10.1002/qua.24856 ), Kenneth Brown and Colin Trout review how to achieve robust rotations by means of gate compilation and magic‐state distillation.