Quantum computers in regular logical computers.
Quantum teleportation and quantum error correction play crucial roles in fault-tolerant quantum computing. Here, we implemented error-correctable quantum teleportation to manipulate a logical qubit and observed the protection of quantum information. Our work presents a useful technology for scalable quantum computing and can serve as a quantum simulator for holographic quantum gravity.
Quantum error correction is an essential tool for reliably performing tasks for processing quantum information on a large scale. However, integration into quantum circuits to achieve these tasks is problematic when one realizes that nontransverse operations, which are essential for universal quantum computation, lead to the spread of errors. Quantum gate teleportation has been proposed as an elegant solution for this. Here, one replaces these fragile, nontransverse inline gates with the generation of specific, highly entangled offline resource states that can be teleported into the circuit to implement the nontransverse gate. As the first important step, we create a maximally entangled state between a physical and an error-correctable logical qubit and use it as a teleportation resource. We then demonstrate the teleportation of quantum information encoded on the physical qubit into the error-corrected logical qubit with fidelities up to 0.786.