A new paper in the journal Science calls on materials experts to contribute new ideas to making qubits, which come in several forms. Shown are five different qubit types. Clockwise from top left ...

Their previous device only handled 17 qubits. The term qubit refers to “quantum bits” and the number of qubits is significant because experts think at around 49 or 50 qubits, quantum computers ...

Qubits or quantum bits are the fundamental building block for quantum information processes. Whereas conventional computers store and process data as a series of ‘1’s and ‘0’s, quantum ...

Logical qubits are collections ... the number of so-called "bit-flip" errors —where a 0 switches to a 1 or vice versa — decreases dramatically. Other types of errors become more common ...

Superconducting qubits ... analogous to a classical bit, which can exist in multiple states simultaneously due to quantum superposition. Superconducting qubit: A type of qubit that uses ...

While the building blocks of a classical computer—bits ... a new type of quantum refrigerator that can complement the dilution refrigerator and autonomously cool superconducting qubits to ...