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Physicists May Have Found a Hard Limit on The Performance of Large Quantum Computers (www.sciencealert.com)
submitted 11 months ago by btp@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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A newly discovered trade-off in the way time-keeping devices operate on a fundamental level could set a hard limit on the performance of large-scale quantum computers, according to researchers from the Vienna University of Technology.

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[–] e0qdk@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago

It looks like this is the pre-print of the paper ("The Impact of Imperfect Timekeeping on Quantum Control") in the journal the article links: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10767

Possibly also relevant from some of the same researchers: Fundamental accuracy-resolution trade-off for timekeeping devices