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How does the lesson characterize the current 'NISQ era' of quantum hardware?
Devices of tens to hundreds of noisy qubits — too small to error-correct a useful computation, but large enough to probe variational algorithms, error mitigation, and sampling experiments
A purely theoretical era with no physical quantum hardware yet built
Fully fault-tolerant machines of millions of logical qubits that run any algorithm below threshold
Single-qubit devices used only for transmitting classical bits
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