{"id":127252,"date":"2021-09-05T02:22:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T09:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/quantum-computers-check-each-others-answers-in-new-error-correction-approach"},"modified":"2021-09-05T02:22:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T09:22:57","slug":"quantum-computers-check-each-others-answers-in-new-error-correction-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/quantum-computers-check-each-others-answers-in-new-error-correction-approach","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Computers Check Each Other\u2019s Answers in New Error-Correction Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-computers-check-each-others-answers-in-new-error-correction-approach.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum computers may be now able to employ a \u201ccall-a-friend\u201d tactic to make sure their answers are correct.<\/p>\n<p>In a study published today in <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prx\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevX.11.031049\">Physical Review X<\/a>, a team of physicists from Vienna, Innsbruck, Oxford, and Singapore designed an error-correction method that lets quantum computers check each other\u2019s answers. While quantum computers are advancing quickly, the devices are still extremely sensitive to outside influences \u2014 like heat and cosmic rays \u2014 that make them more prone to errors that affect their computations, according to the researchers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order to take full advantage of future quantum computers for critical calculations we need a way to ensure the output is correct, even if we cannot perform the calculation in question by other means,\u201d said Chiara Greganti, a physicist at the University of Vienna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum computers may be now able to employ a \u201ccall-a-friend\u201d tactic to make sure their answers are correct. In a study published today in Physical Review X, a team of physicists from Vienna, Innsbruck, Oxford, and Singapore designed an error-correction method that lets quantum computers check each other\u2019s answers. While quantum computers are advancing quickly, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127252","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\/127252","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}