China reports a quantum error correction breakthrough that could rival Google, signaling faster progress toward practical ...

There’s a strong consensus that tackling most useful problems with a quantum computer will require that the computer be capable of error correction. There is ...

The authors execute surface codes on a 72-qubit processor and a 105-qubit processor. Each time the code distance is increased from 3 to 5 to 7, the logical error rate is halved.

On Monday, Nature released a paper from Google’s quantum computing team that provides a key demonstration of the potential of quantum error correction. Thanks to an ...

How do you construct a perfect machine out of imperfect parts? That’s the central challenge for researchers building quantum computers. The trouble is that their elementary building blocks, called ...

Google successfully used quantum error correction in practice, opening the door to large quantum computers with vast capabilities. The team used a surface code to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Paul-Smith Goodson is an analyst covering quantum computing and AI. Microsoft and Quantinuum quantum computing researchers just ...

What are the main error-correction approaches? While all QEC schemes share this process, the specifics can vary considerably. The most widely-studied family of techniques are known as "surface codes," ...

IBM has just made a major announcement about its plans to achieve large-scale quantum fault tolerance before the end of this decade. Based on the company’s new quantum roadmap, by 2029 IBM expects to ...