Seven qubits protecting a qutrit: does a ((7,3,3)) code exist?
Find a three-dimensional subspace of seven qubits that corrects any single-qubit error, or prove that no ((7,3,3)) code exists.
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| 19 | "curator": "Bikun Li, Qicheng Tang, Changhao Li, Chengkai Zhu, Minbo Gao, Zhong-Xia Shang, Bin Cheng and Naixu Guo", |
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