IBM Researchers Can Now Spot Errors In Quantum Calculations

Published April 29, 2015

IBM researcher Jerry Chow in the quantum computing lab at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center. IBM researchers say they’ve solved a big piece of the quantum computing puzzle with a new system for protecting against errors that can crop up among quantum bits, or ‘qubits.’
The issue the team is addressing is similar to an error that can crop up among the bits storing data in traditional computing. Sometimes, a bit that ought to be a 0 turns up as a 1 (or vice-versa)… Read More