The First 6100 Qubit Array at Room Temperature
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- Caltech physicists created the largest qubit array ever assembled with 6,100 neutral-atom qubits.
- Quantum computers require large numbers of qubits to tackle complex problems, but qubits are fragile and need redundancy for error correction.
- The team used optical tweezers to trap cesium atoms in a grid, maintaining superposition for 13 seconds with 99.98% accuracy.
- Neutral-atom quantum computers enable efficient error correction by allowing qubits to be moved across the array.
- The next milestone is implementing quantum error correction at scale, with entanglement being a key step for full quantum computations.
- The research was funded by multiple organizations, including the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the National Science Foundation.