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  • Quantum Leap: QuEra Shatters Barriers with 3000 Qubits and Fault Tolerance Breakthroughs
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    Imagine this: atoms dancing in laser light, defying gravity and error, just like stocks surging amid market chaos—quantum leaps that rewrite reality. Hello, I'm Leo, your Learning Enhanced Operator, diving deep into Advanced Quantum Deep Dives.
    Picture me in the humming chill of a Harvard lab last week, surrounded by the sharp scent of ionized air and the rhythmic pulse of optical tweezers. That's where the magic unfolded in QuEra Computing's record-shattering 2025 breakthroughs, crowned just days ago on December 10th. Their press release lit up my feed: four landmark Nature papers validating neutral-atom quantum computing as the blueprint for fault-tolerant scale. This isn't hype—it's the turning point from fragile proofs to industrial beasts.
    Today's most gripping paper? Dive into QuEra's fault-tolerance showcase in Nature, led by Harvard and MIT teams. They cracked the scale barrier with a 3,000-qubit array running continuously for over two hours, mid-computation replenishing atoms to banish the dreaded "atom loss." Feel that? Atoms, identical and laser-shuttled like ethereal chess pieces, rearrange dynamically—no cryogenic nightmares or wiring tangles plaguing superconducting rivals.
    The drama peaks in error suppression: 96 logical qubits where errors drop as the system swells—below-threshold magic, proving bigger means better fidelity. They distilled logical magic states, the fuel for universal algorithms, and unveiled Transversal Algorithmic Fault Tolerance with Yale, slashing error-correction rounds by 10-100x. It's like upgrading from a leaky rowboat to a supersonic jet mid-ocean storm.
    Here's the jaw-dropper: neutral atoms enable room-temperature operation with laser-wireless control, their mobility birthing error codes that heal themselves, unlike static trapped ions gasping in ultra-cold voids. This mirrors QuantWare's VIO-40K unveiled December 10th—a 10,000-qubit monster via 3D chiplets, 100x the standard, echoing QuEra's scalability symphony.
    These aren't lab toys; QuEra's Aquila simulated string breaking in 2D quantum matter, probing particle physics frontiers. As CEO Andy Ory declared, 2025 flipped quantum from science to execution, backed by Google Quantum AI and NVIDIA.
    We're hurtling toward utility: drug discovery via Qubit Pharmaceuticals' speedups, finance tweaks from IBM-HSBC. Quantum's whisper is now a roar, paralleling global tensions where entangled info outpaces classical spies.
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  • Quantum Leaps: Hybrid Qubits, Million-Qubit Machines, and the Photonic Bottleneck Buster
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    Imagine this: just days ago, on December 10th, QuantWare in Delft unveiled their VIO-40K processor—a staggering 10,000-qubit beast, 100 times larger than today's standards, with 3D chiplet scaling that slices through wiring nightmares like a laser through fog. I'm Leo, your Learning Enhanced Operator, diving deep into quantum's wild frontier on Advanced Quantum Deep Dives.
    Picture me in the humming chill of a dilution fridge lab, erbium ions glowing faint telecom red under molecular-beam epitaxy crystals—UChicago's breakthrough extending coherence from milliseconds to 24, potentially linking quantum networks 4,000 kilometers apart, Chicago to Colombia. But today's star? Quantum Source's fresh report, "From Qubits to Logic," dropped with The Quantum Insider. It's the roadmap from fragile qubits to fault-tolerant fortresses.
    Let me break it down, no equations, just the thrill. We've shifted from theory to engineering brawls. Google’s Willow crushed surface-code error thresholds; Quantinuum's logical gates outshine physical ones. The report's genius? A unified framework plotting qubit carriers—matter like superconducting loops or ions versus photons zipping light-speed—against models: circuit-style gates or measurement-based magic.
    No champ yet. Superconductors fight coherence; ions tangle control wires. Enter hybrids. Quantum Source's atom-photon platform? Deterministic entanglement on chips, room-temp efficient, dodging probabilistic photon flops. Oded Melamed, their CEO, calls it the photonic bottleneck buster—atoms for logic, photons for long-haul chatter. Surprising fact: logical qubits now beat physical fidelity across platforms, a flip I never saw coming so soon. It's like evolution accelerating; nature's dice now loaded for us.
    Feel the drama: qubits superpositioned, worlds overlapping like Brexit echoes in global markets—uncertain till measured. This report forecasts million-qubit machines in a decade, hybrids leading. Parallels everyday chaos? Stock crashes from entangled economies, where one bank's wobble ripples worldwide.
    We're not dreaming; QuantWare's Kilofab ramps production 20x, Sandia's hair-thin optical modulators vibrate microwaves to tame lasers for million-qubit herds. Fault tolerance isn't if—it's when.
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  • Quantum's Firefly Swarm: 3,000 Qubits Defy Atom Loss, Igniting Fault Tolerance Explosion
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    Imagine this: atoms dancing in laser light, defying loss for over two hours in a 3,000-qubit array—that's the electric hum I felt last week poring over QuEra Computing's fresh Nature papers from their Harvard and MIT labs. Hello, I'm Leo, your Learning Enhanced Operator, diving deep into Advanced Quantum Deep Dives.
    Picture me in the crisp glow of my Boston lab, the faint ozone tang of cooling systems mixing with coffee steam, as I unpack today's standout paper cluster: QuEra's four landmark Nature publications capping 2025 as the fault-tolerance turning point. These aren't abstract theorems; they're blueprints for quantum machines that scale without crumbling.
    At the heart? Neutral-atom qubits—identical rubidium atoms suspended in optical tweezers, shuffled like chess pieces by laser pulses. Unlike finicky superconducting qubits needing cryogenic chills or trapped ions wired like spaghetti, these atoms are wireless, mobile, room-temperature wonders. The breakthrough: solving "atom loss," where qubits vanish mid-compute. QuEra's team replenished them dynamically, running a massive 3,000-qubit array continuously for over two hours. Sensory thrill? It's like watching fireflies reform their swarm after a gust, lasers etching patterns in vacuum.
    But the drama peaks in scalable error correction. They built 96 logical qubits—bundles of physical ones armored against noise—and here's the jaw-dropper: error rates dropped as the system grew larger. Below threshold! That's counterintuitive magic; bigger should mean messier, yet neutral atoms rearrange on the fly for Transversal Algorithmic Fault Tolerance, slashing correction runtime 10 to 100 times. Plus, first-ever logical magic state distillation, fueling universal algorithms beyond toy problems.
    Tie it to now: Just days ago, QuantWare unveiled their 10,000-qubit VIO processor, echoing this scale rush, while UChicago's erbium atom coherence leap promises quantum networks spanning continents. It's like quantum's transistor moment—fault tolerance exploding like silicon in the '60s, mirroring AI's hyperscale boom. QuEra's $230 million war chest? They're shipping to Dell and NVIDIA hybrids, atoms entwining with classical behemoths.
    This arc from fragile proofs to industrial beasts? It's quantum's hero's journey, atoms as nomadic warriors conquering chaos. We're hurtling toward utility-scale simulations cracking chemistry or materials intractable today.
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  • Quantum Leaps: Erbium Ions Unlock 2,000km Entanglement for Global Quantum Internet
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    I’m Leo, your Learning Enhanced Operator, and today the quantum world feels especially loud.
    Nu Quantum just announced a 60‑million‑dollar Series A to build quantum networks between data centers, and it pairs perfectly with a research paper I’ve been obsessing over from the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering. Prof. Hualei Zhong’s team claims they can connect quantum computers up to two thousand kilometers apart using erbium atoms embedded in carefully grown crystals. According to UChicago, they boosted the coherence time of individual erbium qubits from a tenth of a millisecond to over ten milliseconds, with one sample hitting twenty‑four. That single jump turns a local lab setup into the blueprint of a continental‑scale quantum internet.
    Picture their lab: the low hiss of cryogenic compressors, control racks blinking amber and green, and at the center a small chip that looks utterly mundane. Inside that chip, rare‑earth ions are frozen in place, each one a tiny quantum lighthouse. When a laser hits an erbium atom, it emits light at telecom wavelengths—the same band our classical internet uses. The trick has always been that these lighthouses go dark too quickly. Zhong’s group used molecular‑beam epitaxy, a nanofabrication technique more at home in semiconductor fabs than physics basements, to grow crystals so clean, so ordered, that the atoms simply… stay coherent.
    Here’s the surprising fact: with those twenty‑four‑millisecond coherence times, a photon could in principle carry entanglement across about four thousand kilometers of fiber—the distance from Chicago to central Colombia—without needing a full chain of quantum repeaters. Suddenly, “global quantum internet” stops sounding like science fiction and starts feeling like network engineering.
    I can’t help seeing the parallel with today’s headlines. While diplomats argue about data sovereignty and cross‑border AI regulation, quantum engineers are quietly building a fabric where information is not just encrypted, but physically unknowable to eavesdroppers. Erbium in a crystal becomes the diplomatic pouch of the 21st century: tamper with it, and the message self‑destructs at the level of quantum states.
    Technically, what they’ve built is a long‑lived spin–photon interface: the spin of the erbium ion stores information, the photon at telecom wavelengths carries it, and the exquisitely grown crystal keeps noise at bay. If they can now entangle two of these ions in separate fridges and send photons through a thousand kilometers of coiled fiber, we’ll have a lab‑scale rehearsal for intercontinental quantum links.
    I’m Leo, thanking you for diving deep with me. If you ever have questions or topics you want covered on air, send an email to [email protected]. Don’t forget to subscribe to Advanced Quantum Deep Dives. This has been a Quiet Please Production; for more information, check out quiet please dot AI.
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  • Quantum Leaps: AI Pilots Room-Temp Qubits, Twists Light for Entangled Networks
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    You know, I was walking past a bank of servers this morning, feeling the hum of classical computation, and it struck me: we’re standing at the edge of a quantum cliff. Just last week, a team at Stanford led by Jennifer Dionne and Feng Pan unveiled a tiny optical device that entangles light and electrons at room temperature. No more super-cooling near absolute zero. No more giant dilution refrigerators. This little chip, built with silicon nanostructures and TMDCs, twists light into a corkscrew spin and uses it to control electron spins—effectively creating stable qubits without the cryogenic circus. It’s like finally finding a way to ride a bicycle without training wheels, in the dark, uphill.
    But here’s what really lit me up: the paper in Nature Communications shows they’re using “twisted light” to entangle photon spin with electron spin, forming the backbone of quantum communication. Normally, electron spins decohere in a flash, but their nanostructures confine and enhance the twisted photons so strongly that the spin connection becomes robust. That’s the kind of stability we need for practical quantum networks, not just lab curiosities.
    And speaking of networks, Fermilab just launched SQMS 2.0, doubling down on superconducting quantum materials and aiming for a 100-qudit processor. They’re adapting particle accelerator tech—ultra-stable cavities, precision cryogenics—to build quantum systems that don’t just work, but work reliably. At the same time, squeezed light experiments with Caltech are showing how to massively boost entangled pair generation over long distances. That’s the missing link for quantum internet: more entanglement, faster, farther.
    Now, let’s talk about the real bottleneck: applications. A new perspective from the Google Quantum AI team, just out this week, lays out a five-stage framework for useful quantum computing. The punchline? Even if we had a perfect quantum computer tomorrow, most current algorithms wouldn’t pass the “could you actually run this?” test. They argue that unless we’re looking at super-quadratic speedups, we’re probably not going to see practical advantage in the next two decades. That’s a sobering reality check.
    Here’s a surprising fact: many of the most promising quantum algorithms today are being shaped not by physicists alone, but by artificial intelligence. Generative models, transformers, reinforcement learning—they’re optimizing circuits, designing error-correcting codes, even suggesting new quantum protocols. AI is becoming the silent co-pilot in the cockpit of quantum computing.
    So where does that leave us? On the cusp. Room-temperature devices, smarter algorithms, better hardware, and global quantum infrastructure like the Israeli Quantum Computing Center deploying John Martinis’s new superconducting qubits. We’re not there yet, but the path is clearer than ever.
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  • Quantum Highway: Atomic Potholes Accelerate Qubits
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    They thought it would make things worse. That’s what I love.
    I’m Leo – Learning Enhanced Operator – and today I’m obsessed with a tiny material tweak that just rewired how I think about quantum hardware.
    According to a new paper in Advanced Electronic Materials, covered this week by The Quantum Insider, a team from Sandia National Laboratories, the University of Arkansas, and Dartmouth doped the barriers of a germanium quantum well with trace amounts of tin and silicon. Intuition said: more disorder, more scattering, slower electrons. Instead, electrical mobility shot up. They created a smoother quantum highway by adding what looked like potholes.
    In quantum-computing terms, that quantum well is the quiet corridor where charge carriers glide, forming the basis for spin and charge qubits. Crank up mobility and suddenly qubits can talk to each other faster and with less noise. Picture a superconducting data center shrunk to a few nanometers: chilled metal, the faint hiss of helium, control lines weaving like silver vines around a core of hyper-ordered atoms. That’s where this tweak lives.
    Here’s the surprising part: the improvement seems to come from atomic short‑range order. Tiny, local patterns in how atoms arrange themselves appear to guide electrons instead of blocking them. We usually teach students that disorder kills coherence; this result hints that cleverly sculpted “disorder” might actually protect and accelerate quantum information.
    And it lands in a week when the rest of the quantum world is sprinting. IBM and the University of Tokyo just highlighted Krylov quantum diagonalization and its sample‑based cousin as leading candidates for practical quantum advantage, pushing our algorithms toward real condensed‑matter simulations on today’s noisy devices. Q‑CTRL is celebrating the International Year of Quantum by claiming true commercial quantum advantage in GPS‑denied navigation, while at Israel’s Quantum Computing Center in Tel Aviv, John Martinis and Qolab have installed a new generation of superconducting qubits aimed at industrial‑scale reliability.
    Taken together, you can feel the field phase‑shifting. As geopolitics wrestle with supply chains and navigation systems, we’re discovering that a whispered change in atomic arrangement can ripple up to defense policy and global infrastructure. A few atoms of tin and silicon in a germanium layer may someday decide whose autonomous ship finds home in a GPS blackout.
    For now, it’s one exquisitely engineered quantum well. But in quantum, phase transitions start quietly.
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  • Quantum's Grand Challenge: Bridging the Gap from Lab to Life
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    The lab smelled faintly of chilled metal and ozone when the alert hit my screen: Science had just published a roadmap asking a deceptively simple question—when will quantum technologies become part of everyday life? The authors ranked real hardware by how close it is to the real world, and superconducting qubits came out on top, edging from fragile physics experiment toward practical machine. According to the team behind the paper, we are no longer talking science fiction; we are talking engineering timelines and technology readiness levels.
    I am Leo, Learning Enhanced Operator, and today on Advanced Quantum Deep Dives I want to pair that big-picture question with today’s most interesting research paper: The Grand Challenge of Quantum Applications from the Google Quantum AI group. It is less a victory lap, more a brutal honesty check on our entire field. Their core challenge is simple: if someone handed us a large, fault-tolerant quantum computer tomorrow, how many algorithms are genuinely ready to solve real problems better than classical machines?
    They propose a five-stage life cycle for quantum applications, from pure theory to fully deployed tools solving commercial tasks. The surprising fact is that most of the famous algorithms people cite in headlines are stuck in the early stages—beautiful mathematics with no concrete, economically meaningful input instances attached. The paper argues that the bottleneck is not just hardware; it is our imagination in connecting abstract speedups to specific, verifiable use cases.
    Picture a superconducting quantum processor like the new Qolab device just installed at the Israeli Quantum Computing Center: a gleaming chip buried inside concentric gold-plated shields, sunk deep into a dilution refrigerator colder than deep space. Microwaves whisper into the chip, gently twisting qubits through a choreography of gates measured in tens of nanoseconds. Each pulse is sculpted, corrected, and re-corrected to nudge fragile quantum states around noise and decoherence. That physical drama only matters if the algorithm they run corresponds to a sharply defined real-world problem where classical methods are provably—or at least convincingly—outmatched.
    The authors highlight quantum simulation, cryptanalysis, and certain optimization and machine-learning tasks as prime candidates, but they insist on a litmus test: can you specify an instance that fits into a realistic fault-tolerant machine and cannot be crushed by future classical tricks? In a way, this is the same question executives and policymakers are asking right now as they compare quantum’s near-term payoff to the rise of AI: where is the first undeniable, economically relevant quantum win?
    Here is where the parallel to current events gets vivid. Just as recent industry roadmaps talk about “utility-scale” AI—systems that must show measurable value rather than just impressive demos—the paper calls for “stage
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  • Quantum's Rival: Probabilistic Computers Embrace Chaos for Optimization
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    You know, I've been thinking about something wild. Just yesterday, Stanford researchers achieved a breakthrough in quantum communication that didn't require the usual extreme cooling—we're talking room temperature quantum entanglement between light and electrons. That's the kind of moment that makes you realize we're not just incrementally advancing anymore. We're fundamentally reimagining what's possible.
    But today, I want to dive into something that's been consuming my thoughts. Nature Communications just published research showing that probabilistic computers, or p-computers built from probabilistic bits, might actually outpace quantum systems for certain hard combinatorial optimization problems like spin-glass calculations. Now, before the quantum loyalists in our audience panic, hear me out.
    The team at UC Santa Barbara, led by Kerem Çamsarı, constructed p-computers using millions of probabilistic bits—imagine tiny switches that embrace uncertainty rather than fighting it. They discovered that with enough p-bits, these systems could solve specific problems faster and more efficiently than quantum approaches. It's like discovering that sometimes embracing chaos is more practical than harnessing quantum superposition. The surprising part? This challenges the conventional wisdom that quantum computers are the inevitable future for every computational problem.
    Here's where it gets fascinating. These researchers had to build p-computers at scales they'd never attempted before, using custom simulations on existing CPU chips. They're essentially proving that the path to computational advantage isn't monolithic. We don't have one silver bullet called quantum; we have an entire arsenal of emerging technologies, each with particular strengths.
    This matters because the quantum computing field has been wrestling with a fundamental question: when will we actually see commercial quantum advantage in real-world problems? We're seeing glimmers—Q-CTRL announced achieving true commercial quantum advantage in GPS-denied navigation using quantum sensors, outperforming classical systems by over 100 times. That's remarkable. Yet simultaneously, research like the p-computer findings reminds us that the landscape is more nuanced.
    What excites me most is that we're moving past the hype cycle into genuine scientific rigor. Google's Quantum AI team released a five-stage roadmap this month, explicitly shifting focus from raw qubit counts to demonstrated usefulness. They're acknowledging that we need stronger collaboration between fields, better tools, and realistic metrics for progress.
    The quantum revolution isn't happening in isolation. It's unfolding through competition, unexpected discoveries, and honest scientific debate. That's how breakthroughs actually occur.
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  • P-Computers: Probabilistic Bits Outperform Quantum in Stunning Upset | Advanced Quantum Deep Dives
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    You know, there's this moment in every revolution when things suddenly snap into focus. Today, December first, we're living in that moment. I'm Leo, and what we're about to discuss isn't just another incremental step forward—it's a fundamental shift in how we think about quantum computing's place in our world.
    This morning, researchers at UC Santa Barbara published findings that genuinely caught my attention. They've demonstrated something remarkable: probabilistic computers, machines built from probabilistic bits or p-bits, can actually outperform quantum systems on certain problems. Now, before quantum enthusiasts start sending me angry emails, hear me out.
    For years, we've been fixated on quantum computers as the ultimate solution. But here's where it gets interesting. Kerem Çamsarı's team built what they're calling p-computers using millions of these probabilistic bits, and they tested them against quantum annealers on three-dimensional spin glass problems. The results were stunning. These classical machines running sophisticated Monte Carlo algorithms actually beat the quantum competition on speed and energy efficiency.
    Think about it like this: imagine you're trying to find your way out of a massive maze. Quantum computers are like having a superpower that lets you explore every path simultaneously. But these p-computers? They're more like having an incredibly smart guide who checks paths methodically and efficiently. Sometimes, the guide wins.
    What really gets me is the scalability angle. The team simulated a chip with three million p-bits, built using technology that already exists at TSMC in Taiwan. Three million bits. They're not waiting for some magical future technology. They're leveraging what semiconductor companies can manufacture today.
    The paper, published in Nature Communications, tackles something crucial: it establishes a legitimate classical baseline for evaluating quantum advantage. For so long, we've been comparing quantum systems to outdated classical algorithms. Now we have a rigorous standard. The researchers focused on discrete-time simulated quantum annealing and adaptive parallel tempering, algorithms that are ready for implementation on actual hardware right now.
    Here's the surprising fact that stopped me cold: using voltage to control magnetism in their p-bit designs proved remarkably efficient. They achieved synchronized probabilistic computers where all bits update in parallel, like dancers moving in perfect lockstep, matching the performance of independently updating designs.
    This doesn't mean quantum computing is finished. Not remotely. But it means we need to think smarter about which problems quantum systems actually solve best, and when classical alternatives might be more practical.
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  • Quantum Leaps: Germanium Superconductors, Photonic Links, and the Qubit Highway
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    Hello everyone, I'm Leo, and welcome back to Advanced Quantum Deep Dives. Today I'm absolutely thrilled because we've hit a turning point in quantum computing that feels like watching dominoes line up perfectly before the big push.
    Just this week, researchers at Princeton unveiled something that made my heart race—a superconducting qubit that maintains stability more than three times longer than previous designs. But here's where it gets really interesting. Over at New York University, scientists did something that sounds like science fiction: they doped germanium with gallium atoms, replacing one in every eight germanium atoms, creating a material that superconducts while still playing nice with existing semiconductor infrastructure.
    Think of it this way. Imagine you're building a house, and suddenly you discover you can add rooms that float in perfect quantum superposition without disturbing your foundation. That's essentially what this breakthrough does. The team, led by physicist Javad Shabani, used a technique called molecular beam epitaxy to build the germanium crystal layer by layer with surgical precision. What blows my mind is the transition temperature sits at 3.5 Kelvin—cold, sure, but less frigid than pure gallium requires. And get this: the crystalline order is so clean that we could potentially fit 25 million Josephson junctions on a single wafer.
    Here's the surprising fact that kept me awake last night: this breakthrough might actually accelerate solid-state quantum computing timelines dramatically because we have a trillion-dollar silicon-germanium infrastructure already built. We're not reinventing the wheel; we're giving it quantum wheels.
    Meanwhile, IBM and Cisco announced something equally transformative—plans to build distributed quantum computing networks linking fault-tolerant systems over long distances using photonic links. They're essentially creating a quantum internet where entanglement gets routed and teleported through fiber optics. In Germany, Trumpf, Fraunhofer ILT, and Berlin's Freie Universität are collaborating with government funding to use quantum algorithms to design more efficient lasers.
    And Saudi Arabia just entered the quantum computing arena with its first quantum computer, developed through a partnership between Aramco and Pasqal.
    What strikes me most profoundly is that we're witnessing the infrastructure phase of quantum computing. The theoretical phase is giving way to engineering reality. We're not just talking about quantum advantage anymore—we're building the highways that qubits will travel on.
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