Hi everyone,
It will soon be that time of the week again when we congregate in J51 to listen to glorious tales of scientific breakthrough. This week it will be the Tale of the Localization of Toric Code Defects, by Cyril Stark.
--Your devoted organizer, Frédéric
-------------------------------------------- Speaker: Cyril Stark Title: Localization of Toric Code Defects Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, May 31, 17:00, HIT J51
Abstract: I will try to sketch the joint project with Renato, Atac and Lode in which we explore the possibility of passive error correction in the toric code. We first show that imperfections in the toric code Hamiltonian lead to logical errors. We then argue that Anderson localization of the defects, arising from unavoidable fluctuations of the coupling constants, provides a remedy. This protection is demonstrated using general analytical arguments that are complemented with numerical results. The talk is mainly based on arXiv:1101.6028.