Mark Byrd is a Lead Quantum HPC Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied with E.C. George Sudarshan as his primary advisor. He held postdoctoral positions at the University of Toronto and Harvard before joining Southern Illinois University. His research focuses on quantum error prevention methods, and noise in quantum systems. Much of his past research has used group theory in problems of quantum error correction, quantum control, quantum entanglement, and quantum information processing. He has served as Secretary-Treasurer of the American Physical Society Division of Quantum Information, and as Program Director for the Quantum Information Science Program in the Physics Division of the National Science Foundation. He was a full professor of physics at Southern Illinois University before joining ORNL.
Presentation Title:
Quantum Error Correction for Quantum Resources
Presentation Abstract:
Resource theories play a crucial role in characterizing states and properties essential for quantum information processing. A significant challenge is protecting resources from errors. We explore strategies for correcting quantum resources. We show that resource preserving operations in resource theory define a gauge freedom on code spaces, which allows for recovery strategies that can correct the resource while changing non-essential properties. This allows decoding to be simplified. The results are applicable to various resource theories and we provide an application to quantum sensing.