Resumen de The first step in trusting quantum computers
Half a century of research on getting computers to work even when errors pop up makes their modern machines pretty reliable. Unfortunately, the laws of quantum mechanics render all that research useless for quantum computers, the sheer complexity of which leaves them prone to errors. Now, they finally have the first quantum program that detects data corruption. Two research groups--one from the University of Maryland and Georgia Tech and the other from IBM--have demonstrated the same quantum error-detecting program, albeit implemented with different hardware.
