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Re:Google Engineers Think This 72-Qubit Processor Can Achiev... by ByThyGrace on Thursday March 08, 2018 @12:28PM (#16545941)
As a layman, I've never heard of qubit quality. What is it exactly? How do you determine it? And why does it affect computation?
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Re:Google Engineers Think This 72-Qubit Processor Can Achiev... by vtomole on Thursday March 08, 2018 @01:33PM (#16546457)
Qubit quality is defined by the quantum volume [0]. Errors that occur when gates are applied to qubits need to be below a certain threshold to perform error correction.

[0]: https://www.research.ibm.com/ibm-q/resources/quantum-volume....

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