
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
Scott Pakin is a computer scientist in the Applied Computer Science group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. With co-principal investigator Wojciech Zurek, he leads the Taming Defects in Quantum Computers project at Los Alamos.
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