Foundational to the work on quantum error correction (QEC) are logical qubits, which are created by entangling multiple ...

This year’s Q2B meeting took place at the end of last month in Paris at the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, a science museum in the north-east of the city. The event brought together more than ...

Surface code: illustration of how error correction works for bit and phase flips. The measure qubits on light blue backgrounds check for phase flip errors while the ...

Quantum computing is still in its infancy, easily beaten by traditional computers. One of the biggest challenges? The fact that quantum bits — qubits — are much more fragile than the bits in silicon ...

With these 32 bytes RS can correct errors in 16 bytes of the message. This means a single bit, or all eight bits, can be wrong in 16 different bytes and the RS will correct them. The number of parity ...