Riverlane, a quantum error correction (QEC) company, will release new survey results from its 2025 QEC Survey, conducted across more than 300 quantum professionals from academia, industry, and national laboratories. The survey found that 95% of respondents consider QEC to be critical for scaling quantum computing, with 99% expressing interest in QEC as a field of study.
However, the survey indicates a gap between the community’s interest and its preparedness. Professionals and academics identified insufficient training and knowledge (41% of respondents), a lack of guidelines (28%), and difficulty accessing resources (28%) as the main barriers to QEC adoption. Additionally, a majority of respondents cited a “lack of sufficiently large and stable quantum computers to run experiments.” The survey also found that two-thirds of organizations have allocated resources to QEC, with 43% planning a hybrid in-house and partnership approach to implementation.
The survey findings align with a shift in global government strategies and the roadmaps of quantum hardware companies, where QEC has become a key priority. Examples include the UK government’s target of one million error-corrected quantum operations (MegaQuOp) by 2028 and DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI).
This indicates that QEC, while widely recognized as essential for fault-tolerant quantum computing, faces practical hurdles related to skills and resources. Riverlane is expanding its QEC capabilities to include enablement and open-source software development, providing tools, training, and support to the quantum community with the goal of helping the field progress toward utility-scale quantum systems.
Read the full report summary here.
August 7, 2025
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