Quantum error correction is a set of techniques used in quantum computing to protect quantum information from errors caused by decoherence and other quantum noise. It involves encoding quantum data in a way that allows for the detection and correction of errors, ensuring reliable computation.
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Today’s Brief Commentary: If you haven’t seen it, my commentary about quantum computing vendors and the trust they must nurture among the public, customers, and users is available on Substack. This is looking to be a busy week for quantum…
Today’s Brief Commentary: Today, I am directing my remarks toward quantum computing companies, particularly small ones. Many of your websites need work. Here are a few suggestions: Be explicit about your quantum computing modality and paradigm. For example: “We implement…
Today’s Brief Commentary: This week’s big news is that QuEra finally announced its large funding round. They telegraphed this last year by letting people know that Google had given them “a boatload of cash.” Okay, I made that quote up,…
Today’s Brief Commentary The word of the day is: Quantum Error Correction (QEC) and Fault Tolerance Okay, maybe that’s longer than one word. The more I dug into the latest quantum news and articles, the more QEC kept coming up….
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Today’s Brief Commentary I’m writing this on the afternoon of December 10, the first full day of Q2B Silicon Valley in Santa Clara. Today’s news links have a few items from last week, more world leadership, which I have highlighted,…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary This is my last round-up of news and articles about quantum technologies before the Q2B Silicon Valley conference in Santa Clara, California,…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary Ahead of my talk at Q2B Silicon Valley on December 12 and an Analyst Insight article for The Futurum Group, I’ve been…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary We’ve entered the end-of-year quantum lull period, though we are between the SC24 conference last week and the Q2B Silicon Valley conference…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary The Supercomputing SC24 conference is this week in Atlanta, so many quantum computing vendors used the occasion to make announcements. That’s why…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary IBM had a lot of news this week on the occasion of their first Quantum Developer Conference held at the IBM Thomas…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary Today’s links are primarily about quantum computing, with a couple of others thrown in about a quantum game and quantum networking. Start…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary Today’s links include three to press releases for planned Q3 2024 earnings reports for D-Wave, IonQ, and Rigetti Computing. All have announced…