{"id":225106,"date":"2025-11-14T16:10:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/superconducting-qubit-that-lasts-for-over-1-millisecond-is-primed-for-industrial-scaling"},"modified":"2025-11-14T16:10:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:10:35","slug":"superconducting-qubit-that-lasts-for-over-1-millisecond-is-primed-for-industrial-scaling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/superconducting-qubit-that-lasts-for-over-1-millisecond-is-primed-for-industrial-scaling","title":{"rendered":"Superconducting qubit that lasts for over 1 millisecond is primed for industrial scaling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/superconducting-qubit-that-lasts-for-over-1-millisecond-is-primed-for-industrial-scaling.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a major step toward practical quantum computers, Princeton engineers have built a superconducting qubit that lasts three times longer than today\u2019s best versions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe real challenge, the thing that stops us from having useful quantum computers today, is that you build a qubit and the information just doesn\u2019t last very long,\u201d said Andrew Houck, Princeton\u2019s dean of engineering and co-principal investigator. \u201cThis is the next big jump forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an article in the journal Nature, the Princeton team report that their new qubit lasts for over 1 millisecond. This is three times longer than the best ever reported in a lab setting, and nearly 15 times longer than the industry standard for large-scale processors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major step toward practical quantum computers, Princeton engineers have built a superconducting qubit that lasts three times longer than today\u2019s best versions. \u201cThe real challenge, the thing that stops us from having useful quantum computers today, is that you build a qubit and the information just doesn\u2019t last very long,\u201d said Andrew Houck, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225106","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}