Introduction

Although almost complete, this book is still a work-in-progress — a few sections are missing, but we are constantly updating and filling in the gaps! Because of this, external links to specific chapters or sections might break as things move around.

Most recent changes:

[New content] Chapter 13: correctable channels, decoherence and interference, classical [3,1,3] code, and Shor [[9,1,3]] code; corresponding exercises
[New content] Chapter 14: Hamming codes, linear codes, CSS codes, logical states and operators, error-correcting conditions, error-protected encoding; corresponding exercises

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