{"id":125208,"date":"2021-07-20T20:23:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T03:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/quantum-milestone-we-can-now-detect-and-correct-quantum-errors-in-real-time"},"modified":"2021-07-20T20:23:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T03:23:06","slug":"quantum-milestone-we-can-now-detect-and-correct-quantum-errors-in-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/quantum-milestone-we-can-now-detect-and-correct-quantum-errors-in-real-time","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Milestone: We Can Now Detect and Correct Quantum Errors in Real Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-milestone-we-can-now-detect-and-correct-quantum-errors-in-real-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Honeywell Quantum Solutions have taken a significant step toward demonstrating the viability of large-scale quantum computing on its trapped-ion quantum computing technology.<\/p>\n<p>The Honeywell team can now perform quantum error correction (QEC), which are protocols necessary to detect and correct errors in real time on a quantum computer. They demonstrated the ability to \u201cprotect\u201d quantum information (prevent a quantum computation from being quickly corrupted by imperfections and noise) on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honeywell.com\/us\/en\/company\/quantum\/quantum-computer\">the System Model H1<\/a>. This is an important first in the quantum computing industry. Currently, most demonstrations of quantum error correction involve correcting errors or \u201cnoise\u201d after the procedure has finished running, a technique known as post-processing.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published this <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2107.07505.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">week on arXiv<\/a>, researchers detailed how they created a single logical qubit (a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honeywell.com\/us\/en\/news\/2021\/05\/quantum-computing-dictionary\">entangled<\/a> physical qubits) and applied multiple rounds of quantum error correction. This logical qubit is protected from two main types of errors that occur in a quantum computer: bit flips and phase flips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Honeywell Quantum Solutions have taken a significant step toward demonstrating the viability of large-scale quantum computing on its trapped-ion quantum computing technology. The Honeywell team can now perform quantum error correction (QEC), which are protocols necessary to detect and correct errors in real time on a quantum computer. They demonstrated the ability to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}