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The copper, gold and steel interior of a dilution refrigerator used for quantum-computing experiments at University College London — CC BY 2.0: Pavlos Apostolidis and UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences

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Quantum error correction protects a qubit without ever copying it

Quantum information cannot be backed up by copying. Error-correcting codes spread it across entangled qubits and measure clues about errors without reading the secret state.

5 August 2026 · 4 min readRead story →

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