Quantum Hardware Trends and Innovations
Noisy—because we do not have enough qubits to spare for error correction, and intermediate scale—because of the relatively small number of qubits. While these devices are not mature enough in terms of capacity or error-handling, they are still good enough to demonstrate the promise of QC. The long-term goal for quantum computing is to build a fault-tolerant quantum computer.
Such “measurements” need not be made by a conscious observer; any number of interactions with the environment will result in the same collapse. “Getting quiet, cold, dark places for qubits to live is a fundamental part of getting quantum computing to… Read More