Fighting Corruption in the Quantum World
A. Watson · Science · 1998
If there is one sure thing in the computer industry, it is that sooner or later, engineers will not be able to squeeze any more circuits onto chips. But an enthusiastic group of researchers is speculating about a whole new realm of miniaturization: devices so small that they operate according to the unfamiliar quantum laws of the atomic world. Quantum computers could remain a dream unless physicists can find a way around the vexing tendency of quantum information to leak away and degrade. But now a team of Los Alamos theorists and East Coast experimenters has shown that quantum computers could identify errors and fix them.