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An Enchanting Witchcraft: Masculinity, Melancholy, and the Pathology of Gaming in Early Modern London
In seeking to illuminate the ways in which inchoate models of addiction emerged alongside the unprecedented popularity of gambling in Stuart London, this paper will explore the intersections between a rudimentary pathology of addiction and transformations in the epistemology of reason, the passions, and humoral psychology in the seventeenth century. By exploring the connections between endogenous and exogenous categories of mental illness, this study will examine the ways in which medicine, social expectations, and religion intersected in the seventeenth century alongside the historical relationship between evolving concepts of mental illness, stigma and the politics of blame and responsibility in the early modern period
Fault-tolerant magic state preparation with flag qubits
Magic state distillation is one of the leading candidates for implementing
universal fault-tolerant logical gates. However, the distillation circuits
themselves are not fault-tolerant, so there is additional cost to first
implement encoded Clifford gates with negligible error. In this paper we
present a scheme to fault-tolerantly and directly prepare magic states using
flag qubits. One of these schemes uses a single extra ancilla, even with noisy
Clifford gates. We compare the physical qubit and gate cost of this scheme to
the magic state distillation protocol of Meier, Eastin, and Knill, which is
efficient and uses a small stabilizer circuit. In some regimes, we show that
the overhead can be improved by several orders of magnitude.Comment: 26 pages, 17 figures, 5 tables. Comments welcome! v2 (published
version): quantumarticle documentclass and expanded discussions on the
fault-tolerant scheme
Error suppression via complementary gauge choices in Reed-Muller codes
Concatenation of two quantum error correcting codes with complementary sets
of transversal gates can provide a means towards universal fault-tolerant
computation. We first show that it is generally preferable to choose the inner
code with the higher pseudo-threshold in order to achieve lower logical failure
rates. We then explore the threshold properties of a wide range of
concatenation schemes. Notably, we demonstrate that the concatenation of
complementary sets of Reed-Muller codes can increase the code capacity
threshold under depolarizing noise when compared to extensions of previously
proposed concatenation models. We also analyze the properties of logical errors
under circuit level noise, showing that smaller codes perform better for all
sampled physical error rates. Our work provides new insights into the
performance of universal concatenated quantum codes for both code capacity and
circuit level noise.Comment: 11 pages + 4 appendices, 6 figures. In v2, Fig.1 was added to conform
to journal specification
Flag fault-tolerant error correction with arbitrary distance codes
In this paper we introduce a general fault-tolerant quantum error correction
protocol using flag circuits for measuring stabilizers of arbitrary distance
codes. In addition to extending flag error correction beyond distance-three
codes for the first time, our protocol also applies to a broader class of
distance-three codes than was previously known. Flag circuits use extra ancilla
qubits to signal when errors resulting from faults in the circuit have
weight greater than . The flag error correction protocol is applicable to
stabilizer codes of arbitrary distance which satisfy a set of conditions and
uses fewer qubits than other schemes such as Shor, Steane and Knill error
correction. We give examples of infinite code families which satisfy these
conditions and analyze the behaviour of distance-three and -five examples
numerically. Requiring fewer resources than Shor error correction, flag error
correction could potentially be used in low-overhead fault-tolerant error
correction protocols using low density parity check quantum codes of large code
length.Comment: 29 pages (18 pages main text), 22 figures, 7 tables. Comments
welcome! V3 represents the version accepted to quantu
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