I provide a brief introduction to the tenets of quantum error correction using the four-qubit code, making contact with concatenated, CSS, stabilizer, and rotated surface codes. I then go over bosonic quantum memories, organizing them into bosonic stabilizer codes and bosonic Fock-state codes. I conclude by overviewing six use cases of bosonic encodings, three of which circumvent no-go theorems due to the infinite-dimensionality of bosonic Hilbert space.
Times:
Mon, Aug 1, 11 am to 12:30 pm est: Lecture 1 - Introduction to quantum error correction
Tues, Aug 2, 11 am to 12:30 pm est: Lecture 2 - Bosonic stabilizer codes
Thurs, Aug 4, 11 am to 12:30 pm est: Lecture 3 - Bosonic Fock-state codes