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IonQ researchers demonstrated that a MacBook Pro could decode simulated MegaQuOp-scale workloads involving up to 408 logical qubits and more than 1 million quantum operations.
The decoding system added less than 0.3% to computation time at a two-qubit gate error rate of 0.01% and less than 12% at a 0.05% error rate.
The arXiv study modeled IonQ’s proposed trapped-ion architecture and did not test the decoder on an operating MegaQuOp quantum computer.
Your MacBook Pro may be powerful enough to one day manage error correction for a fault-tolerant quantum machine executing millions of operations, according to a new study from IonQ researchers.
