SYDNEY: The team of engineers and scientist at IBM T.J. Watson Research Laboratory succeeded in detecting and measuring two types of quantum errors simultaneously
International Business Machines is close to building a practical quantum computer after its team of researchers achieved two important advances in their work.
Computer scientists had been working on developing a quantum computer since 1981 when Nobel Prize winner, Richard Feynman challenged them to create new computers based on quantum physics.
Mark Ritter, a senior manager at International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) T.J. Watson Research Laboratory said, Employing quantum physics for computation is difficult in part because quantum information is very fragile, requiring the quantum elements to be cooled to near absolute zero temperature and shielded from electromagnetic radiation to minimize errors.”
