Serge Haroche

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Chronicled events

1. 1996·​Dream or Nightmare?
   #5904

   Error correction can’t save a quantum computer in practice. It needs many more qubits and steps, each of which errs too, and the large entangled states it relies on are extremely fragile, so it would add errors faster than it removes them.