Some essential papers in quantum information theory
In the past, I was active on the social media platform Twitter and asked colleagues in quantum information theory about papers they consider must-reads in our field. There were many responses leading to a great list of papers that I want to collect here. They are listed below, sorted by year of appearance on the arXiv.
This list does not claim to be a complete or definite list of important quantum information theory papers.
It's merely a list of papers that came to the mind of quantum information theorists active on Twitter.
- P. Shor: Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Prime Factorization and Discrete Logarithms on a Quantum Computer, 1995.
- C.H. Bennett, H.J. Bernstein, S. Popescu, B. Schumacher: Concentrating Partial Entanglement by Local Operations, 1995.
- C.H. Bennett, D.P. DiVincenzo, J.A. Smolin, W.K. Wootters: Mixed State Entanglement and Quantum Error Correction, 1996.
- E. Knill, R. Laflamme: A Theory of Quantum Error-Correcting Codes, 1996.
- E. Knill, R. Laflamme, W.H. Zurek: Resilient Quantum Computation: Error Models and Thresholds, 1997.
- D. Gottesman: Stabilizer Codes and Quantum Error Correction, 1997.
- M.A. Nielsen: Conditions for a class of entanglement transformations, 1998.
- E. Dennis, A. Kitaev, A. Landahl, J. Preskill: Topological quantum memory, 2001.
- S. Bravyi, A. Kitaev: Universal Quantum Computation with ideal Clifford gates and noisy ancillas, 2004.
- R. Cleve, P. Hoyer, B. Toner, J. Watrous: Consequences and Limits of Nonlocal Strategies, 2004.
- P. Hayden, D.W. Leung, A. Winter: Aspects of generic entanglement, 2004.
- C. Marriott, J. Watrous: Quantum Arthur-Merlin Games, 2005.
- D. Poulin: Stabilizer Formalism for Operator Quantum Error Correction, 2005.
- C.H. Bennett: On Random and Hard-to-Describe Numbers, 2007.
- P. Hayden, J, Preskill: Black holes as mirrors: quantum information in random subsystems, 2007.
- M. Navascues, S. Pironio, A. Acin: A convergent hierarchy of semidefinite programs characterizing the set of quantum correlations, 2008.
- G. Smith, J. Yard: Quantum Communication With Zero-Capacity Channels, 2008.
- D. Gross, S. Flammia, J. Eisert: Most quantum states are too entangled to be useful as computational resources, 2008.
- S. Bravyi, D. Poulin, B. Terhal: Tradeoffs for reliable quantum information storage in 2D systems, 2009.
- D. Poulin, A. Qarry, R.D. Somma, F. Verstraete: Quantum simulation of time-dependent Hamiltonians and the convenient illusion of Hilbert space, 2011.
- A.W. Harrow: The Church of the Symmetric Subspace, 2013.
- F. Pastawski, B. Yoshida, D. Harlow, J. Preskill: Holographic quantum error-correcting codes: Toy models for the bulk/boundary correspondence, 2015.
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Many thanks to Victor V. Albert, Alvaro M. Alhambra, George Androulakis, Stephen Bartlett, Gemma De las Cuevas, Steve Flammia, David Gosset, Aram Harrow, Ryan LaRose, John Preskill, Annie Ray, Burak Şahinoğlu, Graeme Smith, John A. Smolin, Frank Verstraete, Mark M. Wilde, Beni Yoshida for your contributions!
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