Scientists have achieved the lowest quantum computing error rate ever recorded — an important step in solving the fundamental challenges on the way to practical ...

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Related: But even then, errors can creep in, and occur at much greater rates than in classical devices. Logical operations in Google’s state-of-the-art quantum processor fail at a rate of about 1 in ...