{"id":215663,"date":"2025-06-09T17:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T22:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/physicists-set-new-world-record-for-qubit-operation-accuracy"},"modified":"2025-06-09T17:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T22:04:13","slug":"physicists-set-new-world-record-for-qubit-operation-accuracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/physicists-set-new-world-record-for-qubit-operation-accuracy","title":{"rendered":"Physicists set new world record for qubit operation accuracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-set-new-world-record-for-qubit-operation-accuracy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists at the University of Oxford have set a new global benchmark for the accuracy of controlling a single quantum bit, achieving the lowest-ever error rate for a quantum logic operation\u2014just 0.000015%, or one error in 6.7 million operations. This record-breaking result represents nearly an order of magnitude improvement over the previous benchmark, set by the same research group a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>To put the result in perspective: a person is more likely to be struck by lightning in a given year (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/safety\/lightning-odds\" target=\"_blank\">1 in 1.2 million<\/a>) than for one of Oxford\u2019s quantum logic gates to make a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, to be published in <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/accepted\/10.1103\/42w2-6ccy\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Physical Review Letters<\/i><\/a>, are a major advance towards having robust and useful quantum computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists at the University of Oxford have set a new global benchmark for the accuracy of controlling a single quantum bit, achieving the lowest-ever error rate for a quantum logic operation\u2014just 0.000015%, or one error in 6.7 million operations. This record-breaking result represents nearly an order of magnitude improvement over the previous benchmark, set by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215663","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=215663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}