IBM Researchers Take a Step Closer to the Elusive Quantum Computer

Researchers at IBM have reported taking one step closer to making quantum computers a reality when they measured two important errors, simultaneously.

Considered impossible until recently, the researchers at the T.J. Watson Research Laboratory successfully measured bit-flip and phase-flip errors at the same time using a previously unused circuitry design. The researchers used a square lattice of four qubits (quantum bits) to demonstrate simultaneously, the detection of errors. Quantum information is highly susceptible to corruption from noise factors including electromagnetic radiation.

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