Google's 9-Qubit Chip (IMAGE)

Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore

Google's 9-Qubit Chip

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The computational processing power of quantum bits (qubits) is poised to have profound impacts on diverse fields of science and engineering. The picture is a photograph of a superconducting chip (area of entire chip: 1 cm2) consisting of 9 qubits in a 1-D array. Microwave pulses are applied to control the states of the qubits and their interaction and control the dynamics in the system. Such Josephson-junction based superconducting systems are a leading physical implementation for quantum computation and simulation processing.

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Erik Lucero, Google

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