{"id":201059,"date":"2024-12-09T13:41:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T19:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/a-truly-remarkable-breakthrough-googles-new-quantum-chip-achieves-accuracy-milestone"},"modified":"2024-12-09T13:41:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T19:41:16","slug":"a-truly-remarkable-breakthrough-googles-new-quantum-chip-achieves-accuracy-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/a-truly-remarkable-breakthrough-googles-new-quantum-chip-achieves-accuracy-milestone","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A truly remarkable breakthrough\u2019: Google\u2019s new quantum chip achieves accuracy milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-truly-remarkable-breakthrough-googles-new-quantum-chip-achieves-accuracy-milestone2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Google have built a chip that has enabled them to demonstrate the first \u2018below threshold\u2019 quantum calculations \u2014 a key milestone in the quest to build <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-02936-3\">quantum computers that are accurate enough to be useful<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The experiment, described on 9 December in <i>Nature<\/i><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-04028-3#ref-CR1\">1<\/a><\/sup>, shows that with the right error-correction techniques, quantum computers can perform calculations with increasing accuracy as they are scaled up \u2014 with the rate of this improvement exceeding a crucial threshold. Current quantum computers are too small and too error-prone for most commercial or scientific applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Google have built a chip that has enabled them to demonstrate the first \u2018below threshold\u2019 quantum calculations \u2014 a key milestone in the quest to build quantum computers that are accurate enough to be useful. The experiment, described on 9 December in Nature1, shows that with the right error-correction techniques, quantum computers can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201059","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\/201059","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}