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by spywaregorilla 1403 days ago
So what's the number of logical qubits we have achieved working practically then? Is this scalable, or is it just going to exponentially require physical qubits for each additional logical qubit?

Genuine question. I've no idea.

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Quantum error correction has been experimentally demonstrated for a single logical qubit, e.g. [0][1]. Even though there might be implementations of multiple such qubits, we're still very much in the "Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum" era.

Generally, the number of physical qubits scales linearly with the number of logical qubits.

[0] https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.11.04... [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04566-8