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Closing in on quantum error correction

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Quantum computers will only become practical when they implement quantum error correction.

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      Communications of the ACM  Volume 62, Issue 10
      October 2019
      89 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/3363418
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