A team led by Jeff Thompson of Princeton University pioneered an approach to more efficient error correction in quantum computers. Credit: Gabriele Meilikhov/Muza Productions
A new error correction method.
Researchers have uncovered a brand-new technique for correcting errors in quantum computer calculations, potentially eliminating a significant barrier to a powerful new field of computing.
Error correction is a well-developed subject in traditional computers. To transmit and receive data over messy airwaves, every cellphone requires checks and adjustments. Quantum computers have immense potential to tackle complicated problems that conventional computers cannot, but this capacity is dependent on harnessing the incredibly fleeting behavior of subatomic particles. These computing behaviors are so ephemeral that even inspecting them for flaws might cause the whole system to collapse.
An interdisciplinary team led by Jeff Thompson, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Princeton University, and collaborators Yue Wu and Shruti Puri at Yale University and Shimon Kolkowitz at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, demonstrated in a theoretical paper published in DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32094-6
The study was funded by the National Science Foundation, the Army Research Office, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Office of Naval Research, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
