IC can control thousands of Qubits
Researchers at the University of Sydney and Microsoft have come up with a chip that can generate control signals for thousands of qubits, the building blocks of quantum computers.
“To realise the potential of quantum computing, machines will need to operate thousands if not millions of qubits,” says researcher Professor David Reilly.
“The world’s biggest quantum computers currently operate with just 50 or so qubits,” he said, “this small scale is partly because of limits to the physical architecture that control the qubits. Our new chip puts an end to those limits.”
Most quantum systems require quantum bits, or qubits, to operate at temperatures close to absolute zero (-273.15 degrees).