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Fcircuit≈(1−ε)NF_{\text{circuit}} \approx (1-\varepsilon)^N

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The reason NISQ-era hardware imposes such a hard ceiling on quantum machine learning specifically is a simple compounding effect. If a device executes a circuit of N sequential gates, each with per-gate fidelity 1-ε\varepsilon , and errors accumulate independently, the probability the whole circuit runs without error falls off as Fcircuit≈(1−ε)NF_{\text{circuit}} \approx (1-\varepsilon)^N. which decays exponentially in circuit depth for any fixed error rate ε\varepsilon > 0 . This is precisely the noise floor Preskill’s paper is about, and it is why serious NISQ-era quantum machine learning proposals are built around short, shallow circuits matched to a specific problem rather than long, general-purpose programs — the strategy…

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Fcircuit≈(1−ε)N,F_{\text{circuit}} \approx (1-\varepsilon)^N,

Equation 14 · Future Hardware

From Origins to Frontier: A History of Post-CMOS, Neuromorphic, Photonic, and Quantum AI Compute

This equation gives an approximation: it relates the quantities while allowing an approximation.

The reason NISQ-era hardware imposes such a hard ceiling on quantum machine learning specifically is a simple compounding effect. If a device executes a circuit of N sequential gates, each with per-gate fidelity 1-ε\varepsilon , and errors accumulate independently, the probability the whole circuit runs without error falls off as Fcircuit≈(1−ε)NF_{\text{circuit}} \approx (1-\varepsilon)^N. which decays exponentially in circuit depth for any fixed error rate ε\varepsilon > 0 . This is precisely the noise floor Preskill’s paper is about, and it is why serious NISQ-era quantum machine learning proposals are built around short, shallow circuits matched to a specific problem rather than long, general-purpose programs — the strategy…

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