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| | CQC Intro's : Quantum Error Correction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | During the correction procedure, the entanglement between the system and its environment is transferred to an entanglement between the measuring apparatus and the environment. |
 | | First, completely general error processes can be corrected, including relaxation and entanglement with the environment, and to do this it is sufficient merely to be able to correct for spin flips (sigma_x Pauli spin operator) and sign flips (sigma_z Pauli spin operator) [2,3,4,5]. |
 | | Third, the probability of failure of the quantum error correction falls exponentially with the redundancy, in the limit of large redundancy, as long as the error rate is below a given level [4,5]. |
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