Open Quantum Design (OQD) has announced a new open-source Error Correction Working Group with QuScript and WD ((Western Digital, NASDAQ:WDC), the storage foundation of the AI-driven data economy and a leader in precision engineering and large-scale data reliability, to advance quantum error correction (QEC) -- an essential step toward fault-tolerant quantum computing.

The collaboration brings together hardware, software, theory and decades of expertise in large-scale data reliability and error correction to develop and demonstrate error correction on OQD's open-source, full-stack trapped-ion quantum computer. By enabling qubits to reliably detect and correct errors, fault tolerance is key to moving quantum systems beyond the lab and into real-world applications.