| Title | Google Researchers Make Quantum Computing Components More Reliable | |
| Date | Thursday March 05 2015, @08:05PM | |
| Author | janrinok | |
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| from the year-of-quantum-computing-on-desktop dept. | ||
A solution to one of the key problems holding back the development of quantum computers has been demonstrated by researchers at Google and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Many more problems remain to be solved, but experts in the field say it is an important step toward a fully functional quantum computer. Such a machine could perform calculations that would take a conventional computer millions of years to complete.
The Google and UCSB researchers showed they could program groups of qubits—devices that represent information using fragile quantum physics—to detect certain kinds of error, and to prevent those errors from ruining a calculation. The new advance comes from researchers led by John Martinis, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who last year joined Google to set up a quantum computing research lab (see “Google Launches Effort to Build Its Own Quantum Computer”)
[Abstract]: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v519/n7541/full/nature14270.html
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