{"id":205440,"date":"2025-02-04T04:08:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/xanadu-quantum-technologies-builds-worlds-first-universal-photonic-quantum-computer"},"modified":"2025-02-04T04:08:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:08:42","slug":"xanadu-quantum-technologies-builds-worlds-first-universal-photonic-quantum-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/xanadu-quantum-technologies-builds-worlds-first-universal-photonic-quantum-computer","title":{"rendered":"Xanadu Quantum Technologies builds world\u2019s first universal photonic quantum computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/xanadu-quantum-technologies-builds-worlds-first-universal-photonic-quantum-computer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aurora consists of four photonically interconnected modular and independent server racks, containing 35 photonic chips and 13km of fiber optics. The system operates at room temperature and is fully automated, which Xanadu says makes it capable of running \u201cfor hours without any human intervention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company added that in principle, Aurora could be scaled up to \u201cthousands of server racks and millions of qubits today, realizing the ultimate goal of a quantum data center.\u201d In a blog post detailing Aurora, Xanadu CTO Zachary Vernon said the machine represents the \u201cvery first time [Xanadu] \u2013 or anyone else for that matter \u2013 have combined all the subsystems necessary to implement universal and fault-tolerant quantum computation in a photonic architecture.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aurora consists of four photonically interconnected modular and independent server racks, containing 35 photonic chips and 13km of fiber optics. The system operates at room temperature and is fully automated, which Xanadu says makes it capable of running \u201cfor hours without any human intervention.\u201d The company added that in principle, Aurora could be scaled up [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205440","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}