{"id":150286,"date":"2022-11-15T20:36:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T02:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-unimon-a-new-qubit-to-boost-quantum-computers-for-useful-applications"},"modified":"2022-11-15T20:36:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T02:36:30","slug":"the-unimon-a-new-qubit-to-boost-quantum-computers-for-useful-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-unimon-a-new-qubit-to-boost-quantum-computers-for-useful-applications","title":{"rendered":"The unimon, a new qubit to boost quantum computers for useful applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-unimon-a-new-qubit-to-boost-quantum-computers-for-useful-applications.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A group of scientists from Aalto University, IQM Quantum Computers, and VTT Technical Research Center have discovered a new superconducting qubit, the unimon, to increase the accuracy of quantum computations. The team has achieved the first quantum logic gates with unimons at 99.9% fidelity\u2014a major milestone on the quest to build commercially useful quantum computers. This research was just published in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the different approaches to build useful quantum computers, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/superconducting+qubits\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">superconducting qubits<\/a> are in the lead. However, the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/qubit\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">qubit<\/a> designs and techniques currently used do not yet provide high enough performance for practical applications. In this noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era, the complexity of the implementable quantum computations is mostly limited by errors in single-and two-qubit quantum gates. The quantum computations need to become more accurate to be useful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur aim is to build quantum computers which deliver an advantage in solving real-world problems. Our announcement today is an important milestone for IQM, and a significant achievement to build better superconducting quantum computers,\u201d said Professor Mikko M\u00f6tt\u00f6nen, joint Professor of Quantum Technology at Aalto University and VTT, and also a Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at IQM Quantum Computers, who was leading the research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of scientists from Aalto University, IQM Quantum Computers, and VTT Technical Research Center have discovered a new superconducting qubit, the unimon, to increase the accuracy of quantum computations. The team has achieved the first quantum logic gates with unimons at 99.9% fidelity\u2014a major milestone on the quest to build commercially useful quantum computers. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150286","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}