Nature Physics, Published online: 02 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03245-z
Calculations on near-term quantum computers will be limited by the effects of noise. It has now been shown how different kinds of noise limit the achievable computational advantage of many proposed quantum algorithms.
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