Chapter 21: Limits, Noise, and Real Hardware

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Explains the gap between the abstract algorithm and physical implementation. The chapter covers qubit counts, circuit depth, gate errors, decoherence, fault tolerance, quantum error correction, and why large-scale factoring requires error-corrected quantum computers.

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