improving error correction<\/a> so that they can scale their quantum computers.<\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019d rather not do error correction.\u201d says Sizer. \u201cWe\u2019d rather use all the qubits for computing, instead of correcting what we should have gotten right the first time. We\u2019re trying to make very robust systems so we can cascade information from one state to another and not flip.\u201d<\/p>\n
That doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that photonic computers won\u2019t need any error correcting codes, he adds. \u201cJust not the massive ones needed in other approaches, and in a perfect world, we wouldn\u2019t need any at all.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another benefit to the photonic approach to quantum computing is that the industry already knows how to work with photons. Our communication infrastructure uses photons \u2013 typically the regular kind, not the quantum entangled kind \u2013 but even entangled photons have been successfully sent over traditional fiber.<\/p>\n
Plus, computer chips are already made with wave guides \u2013 metal or glass tubes that move photons around. Semiconductor manufacturers fabricate them right into wafers. These wave guides are used to enable faster data transfers inside and between computer components and are particularly useful for high performance computing and AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, to detect the photons, cryogenic temperatures are still required, he says, at least today. The quantum computer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[49,48,285,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-177459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-computing","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}