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The clearest recent evidence that quantum error correction is finally improving fast enough to matter also, correctly read, reinforces the niche framing rather than undermining it. In December 2024, Google’s Quantum AI team announced results from a chip named Willow demonstrating that logical error rates fall exponentially as the number of physical qubits encoding each logical qubit increases — a milestone the field calls operating “below threshold,” which Google’s own announcement notes has been an explicit goal of the field since Peter Shor first introduced quantum error correction theoretically in 1995 [ 12 ] . The peer-reviewed paper behind that announcement reports the quantitative…
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Equation 7 · Technological Evolution
After Moore: The Adaptive Radiation of Compute
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The clearest recent evidence that quantum error correction is finally improving fast enough to matter also, correctly read, reinforces the niche framing rather than undermining it. In December 2024, Google’s Quantum AI team announced results from a chip named Willow demonstrating that logical error rates fall exponentially as the number of physical qubits encoding each logical qubit increases — a milestone the field calls operating “below threshold,” which Google’s own announcement notes has been an explicit goal of the field since Peter Shor first introduced quantum error correction theoretically in 1995 [ 12 ] . The peer-reviewed paper behind that announcement reports the quantitative…
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Error Correction Is the Whole Problem in Quantum Computing
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The follow-up result reported a distance-7 surface code with 0.143\% 0.003\% error per cycle of error correction, an error suppression factor of = 2.14 0.02 when increasing the code distance by two, and a logical qubit lifetime exceeding the best physical qubit’s lifetime by a factor of 2.4 0.3 [ 16 ] . That is a memory experiment at a single logical qubit. It is a genuine threshold crossing and it is not a computation.
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