INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Researchers in China said they have found the first evidence that subatomic particles from cosmic rays may be affecting the efficiency of
widely used error correction techniques that are an essential element of fault-tolerant quantum computing.
The scientists monitored
superconducting quantum chips alongside fundamental subatomic particles – called muons – produced by cosmic rays, as well as gamma
ray-induced particle disturbances known as quasiparticle bursts.
“We directly observed...
