Chapter 16: Noise, Errors, and Hardware Constraints

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Section plan:

Explains decoherence, gate errors, readout errors, limited connectivity, shot noise, barren plateaus, and how these affect optimization performance. Introduces error mitigation and realistic benchmarking.