Advancing Science: Microsoft And Quantinuum Demonstrate The Most Reliable Logical Qubits On Record With An Error Rate 800X Better Than Physical Qubits
Microsoft News, Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
Today signifies a major achievement for the entire quantum ecosystem: Microsoft and Quantinuum demonstrated the most reliable logical qubits on record.
By applying Microsoft's breakthrough qubit-virtualization system, with error diagnostics and correction, to Quantinuum's ion-trap hardware, we ran more than 14,000 individual experiments without a single error. Furthermore, we demonstrated more reliable quantum computation by performing error diagnostics and corrections on logical qubits without destroying them. This finally moves us out of the current noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) level to Level 2 Resilient quantum computing.