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A new way to use old codes

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Scalable quantum computers require quantum error-correcting codes that can robustly store information. Exploiting the structure of well-known classical codes may help create more efficient approaches to quantum error correction.

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Fig. 1: Concatenating error-correcting codes.

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Krishna, A. A new way to use old codes. Nat. Phys. 20, 182–183 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-02369-w

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