6 May
2016
6 May
'16
10:31 p.m.
On Fri, 6 May 2016 14:58:52 -0700
Sean Lynch
Depends on what you mean by "practical". Perhaps fewer applications due to the fact that you can only approximate the answer (with accuracy increasing as you increase the number of braids), but potentially more scalable because the braids are more stable. If IBM's computer can't be scaled up to the point that it's more than a toy, but TQCs can, then the TQC would be the practical one.
Yes, that's the theory...In theory topological qbits could be produced in quantity, but in pactice not a single t. qbit has been built as far as I can tell.