Quantum error-correcting codes are one of the most remarkable discoveries in quantum information theory. They are conceptually the simplest and most versatile tool that might one day make large-scale quantum computation possible. This talk will introduce some of the basic ideas behind simple quantum error-correcting codes and will present some new results on how those codes, originally conceived to deal with independent errors, could handle the partly correlated errors that might be expected to arise in practice.

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