John Preskill on Engineering

I was thrilled to hear about the surface code when Alexei Kitaev visited @Caltech in April 1997. It's heartening to see the hardware catching up with the theory of quantum error correction. There's still far to go but encouraging progress @GoogleQuantumAI. t.co

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