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Toward noise-robust quantum advantage

Near-term quantum computations are susceptible to noise that — left uncorrected — can destroy the correlations responsible for quantum computational speedups. New work develops tools for bolstering the noise resilience of these speedups.

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Fefferman, B. Toward noise-robust quantum advantage. Nat. Phys. 16, 1007–1008 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-020-0960-3

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