{"id":239581,"date":"2026-06-25T02:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T07:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/a-new-quantum-computer-sets-a-high-watermark-for-accuracy-are-we-on-the-verge-of-a-big-breakthrough"},"modified":"2026-06-25T02:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T07:22:11","slug":"a-new-quantum-computer-sets-a-high-watermark-for-accuracy-are-we-on-the-verge-of-a-big-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/a-new-quantum-computer-sets-a-high-watermark-for-accuracy-are-we-on-the-verge-of-a-big-breakthrough","title":{"rendered":"A new quantum computer sets a high watermark for accuracy. Are we on the verge of a big breakthrough?"},"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\/kGFmfbqT2qk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a laboratory in Broomfield, Colorado, 98 atoms are suspended in midair, held in place by electric fields and cooled to temperatures close to absolute zero.<\/p>\n<p>Each atom is far smaller than anything the naked eye could ever see, yet each carries information in a form that has no counterpart in <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/topics\/physics-154\" target=\"_blank\">classical physics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Together, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantinuum.com\/press-releases\/quantinuum-announces-commercial-launch-of-new-helios-quantum-computer-that-offers-unprecedented-accuracy-to-enable-generative-quantum-ai-genqai\" target=\"_blank\">they form Helios<\/a>, a new quantum computer built by the British-American company Quantinuum. Quantum computers use the power of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iop.org\/explore-physics\/big-ideas-physics\/quantum-mechanics\" target=\"_blank\">quantum mechanics<\/a>, the rules that govern how physics operates at atomic and subatomic scales. Those that use Helios\u2019 model of suspended atoms are known as trapped-ion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a laboratory in Broomfield, Colorado, 98 atoms are suspended in midair, held in place by electric fields and cooled to temperatures close to absolute zero. Each atom is far smaller than anything the naked eye could ever see, yet each carries information in a form that has no counterpart in classical physics. Together, they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239581","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=239581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}