Australian Researchers Devise Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer

schliz writes "Researchers have devised a theoretical quantum computer that could function even if one in four qubits were missing. The design is claimed to be the first that tolerates both qubit loss and decoherance to this extent. It performs calculations by measuring, rather than manipulating qubits, so there are fewer points of failure."

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Re:Is this news?

[Anonymous Coward]

You're right that fault-tolerant quantum computers aren't new. The title of TFA is "Scientists raise quantum error threshold" which describes the achievement better than the Slashdot title.

Link to paper on the arxiv

[kmac06]

Arxiv link