%0 Journal Article %T Experimental Quantum Error Correction %A D. G. Cory %A W. Mass %A M. Price %A E. Knill %A R. Laflamme %A W. H. Zurek %A T. F. Havel %A S. S. Somaroo %J Physics %D 1998 %I arXiv %R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.2152 %X Quantum error correction is required to compensate for the fragility of the state of a quantum computer. We report the first experimental implementations of quantum error correction and confirm the expected state stabilization. In NMR computing, however, a net improvement in the signal-to-noise would require very high polarization. The experiment implemented the 3-bit code for phase errors in liquid state state NMR. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9802018v1