![]() Our team has recently implemented the ideas of QEC in our Sycamore architecture using quantum repetition codes. Such correlated errors produce more complex patterns of error detections that are more difficult to correct and more easily cause logical errors. In particular, it’s important to suppress correlated errors, where one physical error simultaneously affects many qubits at once or persists over many cycles of error correction. This exponential scaling behavior relies on physical qubit errors being sufficiently rare and independent. ![]() While logical errors may still occur if a series of physical qubits experience an error together, this error rate should exponentially decrease with the addition of more physical qubits (more physical qubits need to be involved to cause a logical error). ![]() When a physical error occurs, one can detect it by repeatedly checking certain properties of the qubits, allowing it to be corrected, preventing any error from occurring on the logical qubit state. The core idea of QEC is to make a logical qubit by distributing its quantum state across many physical data qubits. Bridging this tremendous gap in error rates will require more than just making better qubits - quantum computers of the future will have to use quantum error correction (QEC). However, current generation quantum processors still have high operational error rates - in the range of 10 -3 per operation, compared to the 10 -12 believed to be necessary for a variety of useful algorithms. The Google Quantum AI team has been building quantum processors made of superconducting quantum bits ( qubits) that have achieved the first beyond-classical computation, as well as the largest quantum chemical simulations to date. Posted by Jimmy Chen, Quantum Research Scientist and Matt McEwen, Student Researcher, Google Quantum AI
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