Microsoft Announces The Best Performing Logical Qubits On Record And Will Provide Priority Access To Reliable Quantum Hardware In Azure Quantum
Microsoft News, Tuesday, September 10th, 2024
At Microsoft, we're ushering in a new era of computing on the path to unlocking scientific advantage and tackling some of the world's most pressing challenges.
This is why we're building Azure Quantum - to create the first platform for reliable quantum computing and achieve the vision of quantum at scale.
In April, we announced we're entering the next phase for solving meaningful problems with reliable quantum computers by demonstrating the most reliable logical qubits with an error rate 800x better than physical qubits. The main issue with today's noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) machines is that their physical qubits are too noisy and error-prone, making the machines impractical for real-world applications. That's why we must transition to using reliable logical qubits that combine multiple physical qubits together to protect against noise and to maintain coherence for long-running computations.