Fault Tolerance and Error Correction

The second episode in our series will focus on error mitigation, error correction and fault tolerance. In the first episode, we heard from leading experts about some of the challenges of building scalable quantum computing hardware, and they emphasised the need to actively suppress errors before they can overwhelm a computation. We now take a deeper dive into the challenges of achieving fault-tolerant quantum computation and discuss what progress is being made towards this goal.

Our guests this episode are: John Preskill, Professor of Theoretical Physics at California Institute of Technology and Dave Bacon, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google

The discussion is hosted by Joe Fitzsimons and Si-Hui Tan, CEO and CSO of Horizon Quantum Computing.