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Eliminating errors in quantum computing

Wed, 2012-03-21 10:59 - Lukas Hanschke
Date: 
2011-12-15
Author(s): 

Simone Ulmer

Conference/Workshop/Place: 
media article, ETH life
Link: 

http://www.ethlife.ethz.ch/archive_articles/111215_Toffoli_Gatter_su/ind...

Quantum computers, should they be realized one day, will inevitably make errors. Therefore, they need special error correcting mechanisms. The most important part of it, a so-called Toffoli gate, has now been realized by ETH scientists with superconducting circuits.