When we decided to submit a panel proposal for IEEE Quantum Week2021, it was a no-brainer: it should be about error correction! Recognising that input from all the communities is needed, we wanted to hear and learn from top academics, and industry researchers working on different qubit platforms as well as classical computer architectures. We are building the best error correction team in the world we are tackling error correction across the quantum computing stack as part of our quantum operating system Deltaflow.OS® and, working with our partners, we are obsessed with implementing quantum error correction across various hardware platforms. For quantum computers to be reliable enough to tackle society’s biggest challenges, from drug discovery to clean energy, they need to be able to detect errors as they occur and correct them, a process called quantum error correction.Īt Riverlane, we know that error correction is the grand challenge in quantum computing. That was the overarching theme of a world-expert panel discussion on quantum error correction, a formidable technical hurdle which must be overcome to unlock the full power of quantum computing, organised by Riverlane as part of IEEE Quantum Week 2021.īy harnessing the principles of quantum physics to encode and manipulate information, quantum computers have the potential to run powerful algorithms that are not possible on even the fastest classical computers. But implementing these algorithms involves setting up delicate quantum states which are exceptionally sensitive to interference from other parts of the computer and its environment. This means that today’s quantum computers are highly error-prone, a problem which places strict limits on the number of operations which can be performed. The technical hurdles are significant, but there is a growing consensus that there are no fundamental challenges that cannot be overcome on the path to fault-tolerant quantum computers.
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