{"id":218840,"date":"2025-07-27T12:07:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T17:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/in-a-first-transmon-qubit-achieves-a-coherence-time-of-one-millisecond"},"modified":"2025-07-27T12:07:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T17:07:34","slug":"in-a-first-transmon-qubit-achieves-a-coherence-time-of-one-millisecond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/in-a-first-transmon-qubit-achieves-a-coherence-time-of-one-millisecond","title":{"rendered":"In a first, transmon qubit achieves a coherence time of one millisecond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qdv4DSlFOeo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers in Finland has set a new world record for how long a quantum bit, known as a qubit, can hold onto its information.<\/p>\n<p>They have pushed the coherence time of a superconducting transmon qubit to a full millisecond at best, with a median time of half a millisecond. That might sound brief, but in the world of quantum computing, it\u2019s a massive improvement that could change the game.<\/p>\n<p>Longer coherence times mean <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/innovation\/cat-qubits-for-fault-tolerant-quantum-computing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"dofollow\">qubits can run more operations<\/a> and quantum computers can perform more calculations before errors start to appear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers in Finland has set a new world record for how long a quantum bit, known as a qubit, can hold onto its information. They have pushed the coherence time of a superconducting transmon qubit to a full millisecond at best, with a median time of half a millisecond. That might sound [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218840","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\/218840","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}