D-Wave on rails: Company tests entanglement on its dual-rail qubits
Quantum computing firm D-Wave has published research validating its use of dual-rail qubits, a technology that simplifies error detection. This move marks the company's expansion from its traditional quantum annealing hardware into gate-based quantum computing.
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Advancements in qubit stability and error correction are critical milestones for the practical realization of scalable quantum computers.
Left or right? D-Wave on rails: Company tests entanglement on its dual-rail qubits Company noted for building quantum annealers now also making gate-based hardware.
0 Credit: D-Wave Credit: D-Wave Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav D-Wave is a bit of an oddity in the quantum computing space, having been founded back in the last century. And its initial offering wasn’t a quantum computer like those being developed by IBM or Google. Instead, the company built what’s now called a quantum annealer, a machine that isn’t general-purpose but can solve a large class of optimization problems . While the hardware shares some similarities with the qubits used in gate-based quantum computers, it operates in a fundamentally different way.
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