The effort to design better
codes is“one of the major thrusts of the field,” Aaronson said, along with improving the hardware.
Scott Aaronson, a theoretical computer scientist who has written on Google's feat,
opines that current encryption standards would require a quantum computer to have“several thousand logical qubits” working in tandem perfectly.
This was the central discovery in the'90s that convinced people that scalable quantum computing should
be possible at all,” said Scott Aaronson, a leading quantum computer scientist at the University
of Texas-“that it is merely a staggering problem of engineering.”.