Microsoft and Quantinuum have made quantum computing enter a new era, which is a huge step forward. Together, they made the most stable logical qubits that have ever been recorded. This is a big step forward in the field of quantum computing1.
What Quantum Computing Can’t Do
Quantum computing has a lot of potential uses in health, materials science, security, and other fields. However, quantum computers that are already in use have a major flaw: they make a lot of mistakes. Due to the noise and chaos that come with quantum systems, these mistakes happen.
The Big Breakthrough in Quantum
Microsoft and Quantinuum took this problem straight on. They did amazing things by using Quantinuum’s ion-trap gear and Microsoft’s cutting-edge qubit-virtualization system. What they did is listed below:
14,000 tests Without Any Mistakes: The combined team did more than 14,000 tests and didn’t find a single mistake. This is a first-of-its-kind accomplishment that shows what quantum computing can do when mistakes are kept to a minimum.2. Logical Qubits: The experts made the system hard to mess up by mixing 30 physical qubits into four very reliable logical qubits. The breakthrough moves quantum computing past the time of Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers because logical qubits protect against failures in individual physical qubits. This keeps the system stable3. NISQ systems have a problem called decoherence, which means that even small changes in the surroundings can make the quantum system uncertain. With this progress, Microsoft and Quantinuum make it possible for quantum technologies to be used in real life.2. Implications for real life
There are still problems to solve, but this accomplishment opens up new possibilities:
For business purposes, a computer with 100 of these logical qubits could already solve certain issues. A 1,000-qubit computer could possibly bring about business success.2. Fixing mistakes: It is very important to be able to find and fix mistakes in real qubits. Because the team’s plan uses more than one method, mistakes are much less likely to happen.3. What’s to Come
Microsoft is still fully committed to making quantum computing better, even as the field changes. While we wait for more progress, this major milestone shows how quantum technology has the ability to change everything.
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