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Microsoft and Atom Computing combine for quantum error correction demo

New work provides a good view of where the field currently stands.

Given that, it was probably inevitable that the folks in Redmond, Washington, would want to show that similar error correction techniques would also work with Atom Computing's hardware. Every single atom will behave identically, meaning that you don't have to manage the device-to-device variability that's inevitable with fabricated electronic qubits. The quantum information is typically stored in the spin of the atom's nucleus, which is shielded from environmental influences by the cloud of electrons that surround it, making them relatively long-lived qubits.

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