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IBM Quantum Computing
On Fri, 6 May 2016 14:58:52 -0700
Sean Lynch <[email protected]> wrote:
> Depends on what you mean by "practical". Perhaps fewer applications
> due to the fact that you can only approximate the answer (with
> accuracy increasing as you increase the number of braids), but
> potentially more scalable because the braids are more stable. If
> IBM's computer can't be scaled up to the point that it's more than a
> toy, but TQCs can, then the TQC would be the practical one.
Yes, that's the theory...In theory topological qbits could be
produced in quantity, but in pactice not a
single t. qbit has been built as far as I can tell.