{"id":109633,"date":"2020-07-07T10:45:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T17:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/clever-wiring-architecture-enables-bigger-and-better-quantum-computers"},"modified":"2020-07-07T10:45:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T17:45:37","slug":"clever-wiring-architecture-enables-bigger-and-better-quantum-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/clever-wiring-architecture-enables-bigger-and-better-quantum-computers","title":{"rendered":"Clever Wiring Architecture Enables Bigger and Better Quantum Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/clever-wiring-architecture-enables-bigger-and-better-quantum-computers.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Wiring a New Path to Scalable Quantum Computing<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Last year, Google produced a 53-qubit quantum computer that could perform a specific calculation significantly faster than the world\u2019s fastest supercomputer. Like most of today\u2019s largest quantum computers, this system boasts tens of qubits\u2014the quantum counterparts to bits, which encode information in conventional computers.<\/p>\n<p>To make larger and more useful systems, most of today\u2019s prototypes will have to overcome the challenges of stability and scalability. The latter will require increasing the density of signaling and wiring, which is hard to do without degrading the system\u2019s stability. I believe a new circuit-wiring scheme developed over the last three years by RIKEN\u2019s Superconducting Quantum Electronics Research Team, in collaboration with other institutes, opens the door to scaling up to 100 or more qubits within the next decade. Here, I discuss how.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wiring a New Path to Scalable Quantum Computing Last year, Google produced a 53-qubit quantum computer that could perform a specific calculation significantly faster than the world\u2019s fastest supercomputer. Like most of today\u2019s largest quantum computers, this system boasts tens of qubits\u2014the quantum counterparts to bits, which encode information in conventional computers. To make larger [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}