
Computing
The Problem with Quantum Computers
It’s called decoherence—but while a breakthrough solution seems years away, there are ways of getting around it
Patrick Coles is a quantum physicist in the Physics of Condensed Matter and Complex Systems group at Los Alamos National Laboratory and is a co-investigator on the Taming Defects in Quantum Computers project at Los Alamos.
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