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Efficient fault tolerance

Dealing with errors in a quantum computer typically requires complex programming and many additional quantum bits. A technique for controlling errors has been proposed that alleviates both of these problems.

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Gottesman, D. Efficient fault tolerance. Nature 540, 44–45 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature20479

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