Google intends to continue focusing on keeping the error rate down with first and second order error-correction with a technique called
surface code. Researchers believe this will allow for the development of quantum algorithms on actual hardware like the Bristlecone chip.
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Surface code" is the technical name for a specific error correction scheme which spreads quantum information across many qubits.
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A live chimeric vaccine developed by Acambis Co., Cambridge, Mass., combines the long-established yellow fever vaccine with
surface code proteins from WNV.
Key to this quantum error detection and correction system is a scheme developed by Fowler, called the
surface code. It uses parity information -- the measurement of change from the original data (if any) -- as opposed to the duplication of the original information that is part of the process of error detection in classical computing.