Researchers at the California Institute of Technology theorize that a functional quantum computer may require far fewer qubits than previously thought, making it feasible for the first quantum computer to be deployed before the end of the decade.
Caltech researchers, working with a Caltech-linked start-up, Oratomic, said that by reducing the errors that “riddle today’s rudimentary quantum computers,” a functional quantum computer could be built with as few as 10,000 to 20,000 qubits.
It was previously thought that millions of qubits were…
