{"id":130811,"date":"2021-11-18T11:44:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T19:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/atom-computing-a-quantum-computing-startup-that-believes-it-can-ultimately-win-the-qubit-race"},"modified":"2021-11-18T11:44:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T19:44:24","slug":"atom-computing-a-quantum-computing-startup-that-believes-it-can-ultimately-win-the-qubit-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/atom-computing-a-quantum-computing-startup-that-believes-it-can-ultimately-win-the-qubit-race","title":{"rendered":"Atom Computing: A Quantum Computing Startup That Believes It Can Ultimately Win The Qubit Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/atom-computing-a-quantum-computing-startup-that-believes-it-can-ultimately-win-the-qubit-race2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While traditional computers use magnetic bits to represent a one or a zero for computation, quantum computers use quantum bits or qubits to represent a one or a zero or simultaneously any number in between.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s quantum computers use several different technologies for qubits. But regardless of the technology, a common requirement for all quantum computing qubits is that it must be scalable, high quality, and capable of fast quantum interaction with each other.<\/p>\n<p>IBM uses superconducting qubits on its huge fleet of about twenty quantum computers. Although Amazon doesn\u2019t yet have a quantum computer, it plans to build one using superconducting hardware. Honeywell and IonQ both use trapped-ion qubits made from a rare earth metal called ytterbium. In contrast, Psi Quantum and Xanadu use photons of light.<\/p>\n<p>Atom computing chose to use different technology \u2014 nuclear-spin qubits made from neutral atoms. Phoenix, the name of Atom\u2019s first-generation, gate-based quantum computer platform, uses 100 optically trapped qubits.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Atom Computing describes itself as \u201ca company obsessed with building the world\u2019s most scalable quantum computers out of optically trapped neutral atoms.\u201d The company recently revealed it had spent the past two years secretly building a quantum computer using Strontium atoms as its units of computation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/atom-computing-a-quantum-computing-startup-that-believes-it-can-ultimately-win-the-qubit-race\">Continue reading \u201cAtom Computing: A Quantum Computing Startup That Believes It Can Ultimately Win The Qubit Race\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While traditional computers use magnetic bits to represent a one or a zero for computation, quantum computers use quantum bits or qubits to represent a one or a zero or simultaneously any number in between. Today\u2019s quantum computers use several different technologies for qubits. But regardless of the technology, a common requirement for all quantum [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,38,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130811","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}