Re:IBM compensates for errors, gets usable results out of qu...
by aDfbrtVt on Thursday June 15, 2023 @03:28PM
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What is "reliable" though? All digital systems will undergo some rate of correctable/uncorrectable errors, it just depends on what you consider to be an acceptable rate of failure for your device.
Re:IBM compensates for errors, gets usable results out of qu...
by rbanffy on Friday June 16, 2023 @06:30AM
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> So until now no quantum processing was reliable. Fool me once...
At a fundamental level, pretty much yes. The trick is to build virtual reliable qubits out of a bunch of fundamentally temperamental ones. At some point we'll be able to trust the virtual qubits keep their state indefinitely, like memory.
So until now no quantum processing was reliable. Fool me once...