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Todd A. Brun is an American engineer and physicist, currently a professor at University of Southern California. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society for "contributions to quantum theory and quantum information science, including decoherence and continuous quantum measurement, quantum computation, and quantum error correction." [1] [2] [3] He is a coinventor of the method of entanglement-assisted quantum error correction, [4] which allows for the use of shared entanglement in quantum error correction and for producing a quantum error correction code from an arbitrary classical error correction code.

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  2. "Todd Brun". usc.edu. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
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  4. Brun, T.; Devetak, I.; Hsieh, M.-H. (2006-10-20). "Correcting Quantum Errors with Entanglement". Science. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). 314 (5798): 436–439. arXiv: quant-ph/0610092 . Bibcode:2006Sci...314..436B. doi:10.1126/science.1131563. ISSN   0036-8075. PMID   17008489. S2CID   18106089.