{"id":237870,"date":"2026-05-28T03:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/qa-how-researchers-are-building-next-gen-quantum-computers"},"modified":"2026-05-28T03:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:46:10","slug":"qa-how-researchers-are-building-next-gen-quantum-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/qa-how-researchers-are-building-next-gen-quantum-computers","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A: How researchers are building next-gen quantum computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/qa-how-researchers-are-building-next-gen-quantum-computers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum computers have the potential to transform science, accelerating breakthroughs in drug development, cosmology, materials science, nuclear physics, and more.<\/p>\n<p>To make this future a reality, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are partnering with industry, academia, and the national labs to drive advances across the quantum computing \u201cstack\u201d\u2014the hardware, software, and controls designed to ensure error-corrected quantum calculations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaking a functional quantum computer requires much more than qubits alone. It takes an entire technology stack that can harness quantum science for real-world applications,\u201d said Chris Spitzer, operations lead at the Advanced Quantum Testbed (AQT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum computers have the potential to transform science, accelerating breakthroughs in drug development, cosmology, materials science, nuclear physics, and more. To make this future a reality, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are partnering with industry, academia, and the national labs to drive advances across the quantum computing \u201cstack\u201d\u2014the hardware, software, and controls [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237870","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\/237870","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}