About two years ago, it was realized that standard Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) equipment could be used to experimentally try out small quantum computations. Last year, we decided to embark on a project to try out the simplest [3,1] quantum phase error-correcting code on an NMR spectrometer available at our laboratory. To our surprise, the experiments were successful. I will describe our experiments and discuss the theoretical questions that arose from our involvement in this work.

Slide Presentation:
1. Adventures in Experimental Quantum Error-Correction (PostScript (2.05M) or PDF (526K)
-- slide 2: PostScript (1.8M) or PDF(88K)
-- slide 6: PostScript (927K) or PDF(145K)

2. References: PostScript (163K) or PDF(10K)

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