{"id":239215,"date":"2026-06-18T06:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/helios-quantum-computer-tops-99-9-fidelity-rates-for-one-and-two-qubit-operations"},"modified":"2026-06-18T06:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:18:06","slug":"helios-quantum-computer-tops-99-9-fidelity-rates-for-one-and-two-qubit-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/helios-quantum-computer-tops-99-9-fidelity-rates-for-one-and-two-qubit-operations","title":{"rendered":"Helios quantum computer tops 99.9% fidelity rates for one- and two-qubit operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/helios-quantum-computer-tops-99-9-fidelity-rates-for-one-and-two-qubit-operations3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A public-private partnership in the Mountain West announced new results today that mark steady progress toward the Department of Energy\u2019s goal of fault-tolerant quantum computing, systems large and reliable enough to solve complex problems.<\/p>\n<p>Sandia National Laboratories, home to the DOE\u2019s longest-running quantum computing program, and tech company Quantinuum published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-026-10676-4\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a> today in <i>Nature<\/i> reporting the performance of the company\u2019s 98-qubit commercial system, Helios, which debuted last year.<\/p>\n<p>In operations that involved only one or two qubits, or quantum bits, the system demonstrated very high fidelity\u201499.9975% and 99.921%, respectively. The results establish Helios as the company\u2019s largest and most reliable quantum computer to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A public-private partnership in the Mountain West announced new results today that mark steady progress toward the Department of Energy\u2019s goal of fault-tolerant quantum computing, systems large and reliable enough to solve complex problems. Sandia National Laboratories, home to the DOE\u2019s longest-running quantum computing program, and tech company Quantinuum published a paper today in Nature [\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-239215","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\/239215","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=239215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}