{"id":246109,"date":"2026-10-29T05:59:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/quantum-gates-set-speed-record-at-6-8-nanoseconds-with-over-99-98-accuracy"},"modified":"2026-10-29T05:59:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:59:02","slug":"quantum-gates-set-speed-record-at-6-8-nanoseconds-with-over-99-98-accuracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/quantum-gates-set-speed-record-at-6-8-nanoseconds-with-over-99-98-accuracy","title":{"rendered":"Quantum gates set speed record at 6.8 nanoseconds with over 99.98% accuracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Researchers from J\u00fclich, Aachen and Cologne have performed a quantum operation on a qubit in just 6.8 nanoseconds\u2014with more than 99.98% accuracy. Such operations typically take several tens of nanoseconds in superconducting quantum computers. The paper was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-026-78373-4\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>6.8 nanoseconds\u2014that\u2019s how long it takes light to travel a distance of around two meters (6.6 feet) in a vacuum. In this tiny fraction of a second, researchers at the Peter Gr\u00fcnberg Institute for Functional Quantum Systems (PGI-13) and Quantum Control (PGI-8) at Forschungszentrum J\u00fclich have succeeded in performing elementary computing operations on a quantum bit, or qubit for short.<\/p>\n<p>Switching speed is a critical factor in quantum computing. This is because qubits are sensitive and retain their quantum states for only a limited time. The faster individual operations can be performed, the more can fit into this time window. This is important for complex algorithms and for resource-intensive <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-03-qubit-life-key-theory-quantum.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">error correction<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from J\u00fclich, Aachen and Cologne have performed a quantum operation on a qubit in just 6.8 nanoseconds\u2014with more than 99.98% accuracy. Such operations typically take several tens of nanoseconds in superconducting quantum computers. The paper was published in Nature Communications. 6.8 nanoseconds\u2014that\u2019s how long it takes light to travel a distance of around two [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246109","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=246109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}