The contributions to quantum noise-guessing decoding have recently been included in the historical list of “Milestones” of Quantum Error Correction in a major overview article published in the prestigious Proceedings of the IEEE.
The work “Quantum Error Correction Via Noise Guessing Decoding”, authored by PhD student Diogo Cruz and our researchers Francisco Monteiro, Associate Professor at Iscte, and Bruno Coutinho, also researcher at DLR - The German Aerospace Center, has been listed as the most recent milestone on a timeline of quantum error-correction codes milestones compiled by leading researchers in this field of quantum information in the paper “Quantum Information Processing, Sensing, and Communications: Their Myths, Realities, and Futures”, published in the latest issue of the prestigious journal Proceedings of the IEEE, available in the arXiv.
The article, available in early access since January 2025 and recently assigned to a regular volume, provides a historical perspective on the development of Quantum Error Correction and identifies the field's major scientific milestones.
The milestones list begins with the pioneering works of Peter Shor and A. Robert Calderbank, who launched the field in 1995/96 with the first quantum error-correcting codes. Peter Shor is the recipient of the 2025 Claude E. Shannon Award, often described as the “Nobel Prize” of Information Theory, while Calderbank received the same distinction in 2015.
Within this historical framework spanning nearly three decades, our 2023 article appears as the most recent milestone in the list, recognizing IT’s contributions to the advancement of quantum noise-guessing decoding methods. Quoting Francisco Monteiro: "This inclusion represents more than a citation: it constitutes formal recognition of our work as part of the structured historical narrative of the field, as defined by a landmark overview published in IEEE’s flagship journal."
It is also worth highlighting that two of the core research articles underpinning this line of work were published in the Q1 journals Quantum, one of the leading international journals in quantum science, and IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering.
This distinction confirms that research developed at IT not only advances the state of the art, but has now become part of the established historical foundation of Quantum Error Correction.
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