Everything about Code 39

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Code 39A 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Suppressing quantum errors by scaling a surface code logical qubitInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The Big SnowThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten Zip Code RecognitionCited 9,944 times
5. Go sideways: Matrix 2 of 5A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Code 128A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten Zip Code Recognition

  Y. LeCun, B. Boser, J. S. Denker · 1989 · Neural Computation · 9,944 citations

• First-principles simulation: ideas, illustrations and the CASTEP code

  M D Segall, Philip J D Lindan, M J Probert · 2002 · Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter · 9,227 citations

• A decimal code for the growth stages of cereals

  J. C. ZADOKS, T. T. CHANG, C. F. KONZAK · 1974 · Weed Research · 8,218 citations

• VASPKIT: A user-friendly interface facilitating high-throughput computing and analysis using VASP code

  Vei Wang, Nan Xu, Jin-Cheng Liu · 2021 · Computer Physics Communications · 8,102 citations

• Translating the Histone Code

  Thomas Jenuwein, C. David Allis · 2001 · Science · 7,886 citations

• BoltzTraP. A code for calculating band-structure dependent quantities

  Georg K.H. Madsen, David J. Singh · 2006 · Computer Physics Communications · 6,200 citations

• The cosmological simulation code gadget-2

  Volker Springel · 2005 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 5,952 citations

• Space-time codes for high data rate wireless communication: performance criterion and code construction

  V. Tarokh, N. Seshadri, A.R. Calderbank · 1998 · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 5,532 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Suppressing quantum errors by scaling a surface code logical qubit

  Google Quantum AI, Rajeev Acharya, Igor Aleiner · 2023 · Nature · 1,112 citations

• Competition-level code generation with AlphaCode

  Yujia Li, David Choi, Junyoung Chung · 2022 · Science · 974 citations

• Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold

  Google Quantum AI and Collaborators, Rajeev Acharya, Dmitry A. Abanin · 2024 · Nature · 890 citations

• Realizing repeated quantum error correction in a distance-three surface code

  Sebastian Krinner, Nathan Lacroix, Ants Remm · 2022 · Nature · 710 citations

• Quantum logic with spin qubits crossing the surface code threshold

  Xiao Xue, Maximilian Russ, Nodar Samkharadze · 2022 · Nature · 534 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The Big SnowBerta Hader, Elmer Hader · 1948

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🔗 Related topics

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