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This is your Advanced Quantum Deep Dives podcast.
Just days ago, the quantum computing community was shaken—in the best sense—by a headline that will echo through physics labs for years. I’m Leo, your guide through the ambiguities and wonders of Advanced Quantum Deep Dives, and today, I’m taking you straight to a cleanroom in Finland where history was made.
On July 8th, researchers at Aalto University achieved what most thought was years away: a single transmon qubit with a coherence time hitting a full millisecond and a median of half a millisecond. That may sound small, but let me dramatize: in quantum computing, such an increase is like holding your breath underwater, only to surface after minutes rather than the usual seconds. This work, published just this week in Nature Communications, surpasses the previous global record of around 0.6 milliseconds by a staggering margin.
Picture a quantum computer: the hum of cryogenics, the shimmering cables cooled to near absolute zero, and in the center, qubits so delicate that a particle’s stray whisper could tip them from logic to oblivion. Coherence time is the span a qubit can maintain its quantum state before noise—be it electromagnetic interference or cosmic rays—breaks the spell. More coherence means more quantum operations, fewer errors, and a leap toward the dream of fault-tolerant quantum computation.
PhD student Mikko Tuokkola led the team, meticulously measuring the quantum echoes as his transmon qubit refused to decohere, time and again. Supervisors like Dr. Yoshiki Sunada, who moved to Stanford, oversaw the delicate fabrication—performed not in some corporate fortress, but in an academic cleanroom accessible to the world’s rising scientists. Finland, thanks to partnerships like the Quantum Computing and Devices research group and the Finnish Quantum Flagship, now stands at the forefront of global quantum progress.
The impact? Longer coherence times allow quantum logic circuits to stretch out, performing hundreds—or thousands—more logic gates before error correction needs to kick in. This slashes the classical resources needed to keep a quantum computer honest. It means more potential for chemistry, cryptography, drug design—anything where searching vast possibilities faster than a million classical computers is the goal.
One surprising fact: this new coherence record wasn’t achieved through outlandish new physics, but meticulous engineering and reproducible methods—a strong signal that practical, scalable advances aren’t science fiction anymore.
As I read the headlines from the past 48 hours—massive investments, like Infleqtion’s $50 million project to advance neutral-atom quantum platforms in Illinois—I’m seeing the world inch closer to a tipping point, where each improvement in laboratory control and state lifetimes maps onto real-world impact.
Quantum technologies remind me of global affairs: the smallest, often invisible actions—a policy, a breakthrough, a single atom’s spin—can determine the future of nations or the speed of computations. The possibilities ahead are limited only by the coherence of our vision.
Thank you for joining me on Advanced Quantum Deep Dives. If you have questions or topics you want unraveled, email me at [email protected]. Subscribe wherever you listen, and remember—this has been a Quiet Please Production. For more, visit quiet please dot AI.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
Just days ago, the quantum computing community was shaken—in the best sense—by a headline that will echo through physics labs for years. I’m Leo, your guide through the ambiguities and wonders of Advanced Quantum Deep Dives, and today, I’m taking you straight to a cleanroom in Finland where history was made.
On July 8th, researchers at Aalto University achieved what most thought was years away: a single transmon qubit with a coherence time hitting a full millisecond and a median of half a millisecond. That may sound small, but let me dramatize: in quantum computing, such an increase is like holding your breath underwater, only to surface after minutes rather than the usual seconds. This work, published just this week in Nature Communications, surpasses the previous global record of around 0.6 milliseconds by a staggering margin.
Picture a quantum computer: the hum of cryogenics, the shimmering cables cooled to near absolute zero, and in the center, qubits so delicate that a particle’s stray whisper could tip them from logic to oblivion. Coherence time is the span a qubit can maintain its quantum state before noise—be it electromagnetic interference or cosmic rays—breaks the spell. More coherence means more quantum operations, fewer errors, and a leap toward the dream of fault-tolerant quantum computation.
PhD student Mikko Tuokkola led the team, meticulously measuring the quantum echoes as his transmon qubit refused to decohere, time and again. Supervisors like Dr. Yoshiki Sunada, who moved to Stanford, oversaw the delicate fabrication—performed not in some corporate fortress, but in an academic cleanroom accessible to the world’s rising scientists. Finland, thanks to partnerships like the Quantum Computing and Devices research group and the Finnish Quantum Flagship, now stands at the forefront of global quantum progress.
The impact? Longer coherence times allow quantum logic circuits to stretch out, performing hundreds—or thousands—more logic gates before error correction needs to kick in. This slashes the classical resources needed to keep a quantum computer honest. It means more potential for chemistry, cryptography, drug design—anything where searching vast possibilities faster than a million classical computers is the goal.
One surprising fact: this new coherence record wasn’t achieved through outlandish new physics, but meticulous engineering and reproducible methods—a strong signal that practical, scalable advances aren’t science fiction anymore.
As I read the headlines from the past 48 hours—massive investments, like Infleqtion’s $50 million project to advance neutral-atom quantum platforms in Illinois—I’m seeing the world inch closer to a tipping point, where each improvement in laboratory control and state lifetimes maps onto real-world impact.
Quantum technologies remind me of global affairs: the smallest, often invisible actions—a policy, a breakthrough, a single atom’s spin—can determine the future of nations or the speed of computations. The possibilities ahead are limited only by the coherence of our vision.
Thank you for joining me on Advanced Quantum Deep Dives. If you have questions or topics you want unraveled, email me at [email protected]. Subscribe wherever you listen, and remember—this has been a Quiet Please Production. For more, visit quiet please dot AI.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
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Just days ago, the quantum computing community was shaken—in the best sense—by a headline that will echo through physics labs for years. I’m Leo, your guide through the ambiguities and wonders of Advanced Quantum Deep Dives, and today, I’m taking you straight to a cleanroom in Finland where history was made.
On July 8th, researchers at Aalto University achieved what most thought was years away: a single transmon qubit with a coherence time hitting a full millisecond and a median of half a millisecond. That may sound small, but let me dramatize: in quantum computing, such an increase is like holding your breath underwater, only to surface after minutes rather than the usual seconds. This work, published just this week in Nature Communications, surpasses the previous global record of around 0.6 milliseconds by a staggering margin.
Picture a quantum computer: the hum of cryogenics, the shimmering cables cooled to near absolute zero, and in the center, qubits so delicate that a particle’s stray whisper could tip them from logic to oblivion. Coherence time is the span a qubit can maintain its quantum state before noise—be it electromagnetic interference or cosmic rays—breaks the spell. More coherence means more quantum operations, fewer errors, and a leap toward the dream of fault-tolerant quantum computation.
PhD student Mikko Tuokkola led the team, meticulously measuring the quantum echoes as his transmon qubit refused to decohere, time and again. Supervisors like Dr. Yoshiki Sunada, who moved to Stanford, oversaw the delicate fabrication—performed not in some corporate fortress, but in an academic cleanroom accessible to the world’s rising scientists. Finland, thanks to partnerships like the Quantum Computing and Devices research group and the Finnish Quantum Flagship, now stands at the forefront of global quantum progress.
The impact? Longer coherence times allow quantum logic circuits to stretch out, performing hundreds—or thousands—more logic gates before error correction needs to kick in. This slashes the classical resources needed to keep a quantum computer honest. It means more potential for chemistry, cryptography, drug design—anything where searching vast possibilities faster than a million classical computers is the goal.
One surprising fact: this new coherence record wasn’t achieved through outlandish new physics, but meticulous engineering and reproducible methods—a strong signal that practical, scalable advances aren’t science fiction anymore.
As I read the headlines from the past 48 hours—massive investments, like Infleqtion’s $50 million project to advance neutral-atom quantum platforms in Illinois—I’m seeing the world inch closer to a tipping point, where each improvement in laboratory control and state lifetimes maps onto real-world impact.
Quantum technologies remind me of global affairs: the smallest, often invisible actions—a policy, a breakthrough, a single atom’s spin—can determine the future of nations or the speed of computations. The possibilities ahead are limited only by the coherence of our vision.
Thank you for joining me on Advanced Quantum Deep Dives. If you have questions or topics you want unraveled, email me at [email protected]. Subscribe wherever you listen, and remember—this has been a Quiet Please Production. For more, visit quiet please dot AI.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
Just days ago, the quantum computing community was shaken—in the best sense—by a headline that will echo through physics labs for years. I’m Leo, your guide through the ambiguities and wonders of Advanced Quantum Deep Dives, and today, I’m taking you straight to a cleanroom in Finland where history was made.
On July 8th, researchers at Aalto University achieved what most thought was years away: a single transmon qubit with a coherence time hitting a full millisecond and a median of half a millisecond. That may sound small, but let me dramatize: in quantum computing, such an increase is like holding your breath underwater, only to surface after minutes rather than the usual seconds. This work, published just this week in Nature Communications, surpasses the previous global record of around 0.6 milliseconds by a staggering margin.
Picture a quantum computer: the hum of cryogenics, the shimmering cables cooled to near absolute zero, and in the center, qubits so delicate that a particle’s stray whisper could tip them from logic to oblivion. Coherence time is the span a qubit can maintain its quantum state before noise—be it electromagnetic interference or cosmic rays—breaks the spell. More coherence means more quantum operations, fewer errors, and a leap toward the dream of fault-tolerant quantum computation.
PhD student Mikko Tuokkola led the team, meticulously measuring the quantum echoes as his transmon qubit refused to decohere, time and again. Supervisors like Dr. Yoshiki Sunada, who moved to Stanford, oversaw the delicate fabrication—performed not in some corporate fortress, but in an academic cleanroom accessible to the world’s rising scientists. Finland, thanks to partnerships like the Quantum Computing and Devices research group and the Finnish Quantum Flagship, now stands at the forefront of global quantum progress.
The impact? Longer coherence times allow quantum logic circuits to stretch out, performing hundreds—or thousands—more logic gates before error correction needs to kick in. This slashes the classical resources needed to keep a quantum computer honest. It means more potential for chemistry, cryptography, drug design—anything where searching vast possibilities faster than a million classical computers is the goal.
One surprising fact: this new coherence record wasn’t achieved through outlandish new physics, but meticulous engineering and reproducible methods—a strong signal that practical, scalable advances aren’t science fiction anymore.
As I read the headlines from the past 48 hours—massive investments, like Infleqtion’s $50 million project to advance neutral-atom quantum platforms in Illinois—I’m seeing the world inch closer to a tipping point, where each improvement in laboratory control and state lifetimes maps onto real-world impact.
Quantum technologies remind me of global affairs: the smallest, often invisible actions—a policy, a breakthrough, a single atom’s spin—can determine the future of nations or the speed of computations. The possibilities ahead are limited only by the coherence of our vision.
Thank you for joining me on Advanced Quantum Deep Dives. If you have questions or topics you want unraveled, email me at [email protected]. Subscribe wherever you listen, and remember—this has been a Quiet Please Production. For more, visit quiet please dot AI.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI