Beyond NISQ: The Megaquop Machine
Today’s Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers have scientific value, but quantum machines with broad practical value must be protected against noise using quantum error correction and fault-tolerant protocols. Recent studies of quantum error correction on actual hardware are opening a new era of quantum information processing. Error-corrected computers capable of performing one million quantum operations or more may be realized soon, raising a compelling question for the quantum community: What are the potential uses of these megaquop machines?
Authors
- John P. Preskill (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2421-4762)
Institutions
- California Institute of Technology (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing
- Published
- 2025-03-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3723153
- Citations
- 26
- Primary Topic
- Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 64.51