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Steane code

The Steane code is a tool in quantum error correction introduced by Andrew Steane in 1996. It is a CSS code (Calderbank-Shor-Steane), using the classical binary [7,4,3] Hamming code to correct for both qubit flip errors (X errors) and phase flip errors (Z errors). The Steane code encodes one logical qubit in 7 physical qubits and is able to correct arbitrary single qubit errors. Its check matrix in standard form is : \begin{bmatrix} H & 0 \\ 0 & H \end{bmatrix} where H is the parity-check matrix of the Hamming code and is given by : H = \begin{bmatrix} 1 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 1 & 1\\ 0 & 1 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 1\\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 1 \end{bmatrix}. The 7,1,3 Steane code is the first in the family of quantum Hamming codes, codes with parameters 2^r-1, 2^r-1-2r, 3 for integers r \geq 3 . It is also a quantum color code.

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The Steane code is a tool in quantum error correction introduced by Andrew Steane in 1996. It is a CSS code (Calderbank-Shor-Steane), using the classical binary [7,4,3] Hamming code to correct for both qubit flip errors (X errors) and phase flip errors (Z errors). The Steane code encodes one logical qubit in 7 physical qubits and is able to correct arbitrary single qubit errors. Its check matrix in standard form is : \begin{bmatrix} H & 0 \\ 0 & H \end{bmatrix} where H is the parity-check matrix of the Hamming code and is given by : H = \begin{bmatrix} 1 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 1 & 1\\ 0 & 1 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 1\\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 1 \end{bmatrix}. The 7,1,3 Steane code is the first in the family of quantum Hamming codes, codes with parameters 2^r-1, 2^r-1-2r, 3 for integers r \geq 3 . It is also a quantum color code.

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