MilestoneError correctionConfirmed

Trapped ions demonstrate fault-tolerant control of an encoded qubit

Sep 24, 2020

Researchers use 13 trapped-ion qubits to prepare, measure and manipulate a logical qubit with circuits designed to limit error spreading. Error correction is evaluated afterward; the experiment does not maintain a continuously stabilized logical memory.

Why it matters

It tests whether fault-tolerant circuit design improves encoded operations under the noise of an actual quantum device.

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