Published on: 2025-07-05 16:51:38
In a scene from the movie Gladiator, Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, worried about the fragility of his empire, tells his general, Maximus: “There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish.” The same could be said qubits. They are foundational components of quantum computers, and are one of thornier challenges in getting stable and usable systems up and running. A key reason is how fragile they are and how easily they can lose the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 11:00:00
Amazon Web Services has unveiled its Ocelot chip based on a hardware-efficient quantum computing architecture. Fernando Brandão and Oskar Painter of AWS said in a blog post that the pair of silicon microchips that compose the Ocelot logical-qubit memory chip represent the company’s first-generation quantum chip, and it could reduce the costs of implementing quantum error correction by up to 90%. Ocelot represents Amazon Web Services’ pioneering effort to develop, from the ground up, a hardware
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 11:00:00
Ocelot consists of nine quantum bits, or qubits, on a chip about a centimeter square, which, like some forms of quantum hardware, must be cryogenically cooled to near absolute zero in order to operate. Five of the nine qubits are a type of hardware that the field calls a “cat qubit,” named for Schrödinger’s cat, the famous 20th-century thought experiment in which an unseen cat in a box may be considered both dead and alive. Such a superposition of states is a key concept in quantum computing. T
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 14:15:09
Following up on Microsoft's announcement of a qubit based on completely new physics, Amazon is publishing a paper describing a very different take on quantum computing hardware. The system mixes two different types of qubit hardware to improve the stability of the quantum information they hold. The idea is that one type of qubit is resistant to errors, while the second can be used for implementing an error-correction code that catches the problems that do happen. While there have been more effe
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