Release of the world's first fault-tolerant quantum computer announced

Little-known American startup QuEraComputing, which creates quantum computers using neutral atoms, has announced its intention to release the world's first commercial fault-tolerant quantum computer this year.

According to the official announcement, the device will beinclude 256 physical and 10 logical qubits. The latter are physical quantum qubits connected using quantum entanglement, which reduces the number of errors in quantum computer calculations.

QuEra Computing's ambitious plans confirmedresults of a recent study in which company employees, researchers from Harvard and a number of other specialists demonstrated a working quantum computer with 48 logical qubits - a record number to date.

“This is the first quantum error correction machine,” said Harry Zhou, a physicist at QuEra and Harvard University.

The company notes that their computer does not haveenough power for breakthrough discoveries, but will serve as a platform for programmers to begin testing code for future quantum computers. So, QuEra plans to release a computer with 3,000 physical and 30 logical qubits by 2025, and by 2026, show a device with 10,000 physical and 100 logical qubits.