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Lightning flashes over Albuquerque’s high desert horizon as IEEE Quantum Week kicks off, and the world’s eyes turn toward New Mexico. I’m Leo—Learning Enhanced Operator, your technical guide through the rapidly shifting landscape of quantum computing. Today, let’s dive straight into one of the most exciting hardware milestones to emerge just this week: the modular quantum processor breakthrough from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Imagine you’re snapping together LEGO blocks on the living room carpet. Now, instead of plastic bricks, picture sleek, supercooled modules—each packed with superconducting qubits, the quantum bits whose weirdness lets them encode information in ways classical bits simply can’t. While a classical bit is a light switch—on or off, one or zero—a quantum bit is more like an ultra-sensitive dimmer, simultaneously sampling every brightness in between. That’s where the magic starts: as you add modules, the system’s capacity grows exponentially, not linearly, unlocking computational potential no classical supercomputer can touch.

Up until now, quantum processors in labs resembled monolithic sculptures: daunting, delicate, and inflexible. Connect too many qubits and errors creep in—too few and you don’t reach “quantum advantage.” But this week, Professor Wolfgang Pfaff’s team showed a modular superconducting design with a nearly 99 percent fidelity rate for entangling and un-entangling those modules. In layman’s terms, their “snap-together” quantum computer delivers both the scale and accuracy needed for practical quantum computations—a dramatic leap forward from single-piece machines that suffer when one tiny misstep derails the entire system. This modular approach not only boosts performance, but allows researchers to upgrade faulty parts or swap modules like you’d replace a single string on a violin instead of the whole instrument.

It’s not just Illinois turning heads—hardware investments are surging everywhere, driven by breakthroughs like Google’s recent advances in error correction and IBM’s planned release of a next-generation processor later this year. Trapped ions, photonics, and, yes, modular superconducting circuits are all in the global race to dominate the quantum hardware playground. Just ask the folks in New Mexico, fresh from signing a new DARPA partnership for the Quantum Frontier Project—another bid in the global quest to see which system will achieve utility-scale quantum computing first.

Walking through a quantum lab, you hear the click of cooling pumps, see wires twisting through labyrinths of shielded boxes, and smell ozone from high-voltage tests—a far cry from cloud server rooms, but soon, quantum systems will be just down the hall from the AI clusters in real-world data centers. Tech giants like IBM, Google, and AWS are pouring billions into this convergence, betting that quantum capability will join AI and cloud in reshaping industries—crypto

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Right now, I’m coming to you from a chilled, humming laboratory not unlike the calm before a thunderstorm—a place that, for me, crackles with anticipation. I’m Leo, your Learning Enhanced Operator, quantum specialist, and today on Quantum Tech Updates, I’m diving into one of the most electrifying hardware milestones of 2025: IonQ’s breakthrough in synthetic diamond quantum materials, announced only yesterday.

Here’s the scene: scientists at IonQ and Element Six, a division of De Beers, have created quantum-grade diamond films that can be manufactured with the same industrial processes used to make standard chips. If that seems technical, let me make it clear: until now, fabricating diamonds pure enough for quantum memory was almost artisanal—slow, expensive, and inconsistent. Now, for the first time, we can bond these diamonds onto semiconductor wafers at scale, like snapping LEGO bricks together to build not just a house, but an entire quantum city.

So why does this matter? Well, quantum bits, or qubits, push the boundaries of what’s computationally possible. If a classical bit is a single light switch—on or off—a qubit is more like a finely tuned dimmer, lighting up infinite shades in between thanks to the magic of superposition and entanglement. Conventional computers work in one lane at a time, but a quantum processor dances across many possibilities, all at once.

Picture this: instead of a hundred classical switches controlling a giant scoreboard, we have a hundred quantum dimmers, each on a quantum network. With IonQ’s foundry-compatible diamond, suddenly it’s no longer a fantasy to link clusters of qubits across chips and even across data centers, with photons carrying quantum information securely and instantly. This means we’re moving closer to globally interconnected quantum memory and true quantum networks—imagine the internet, but encrypted by laws of physics, not human convention.

Wolfgang Pfaff at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign likened recent modular processor breakthroughs to assembling quantum computers the way you build with blocks. This week, with IonQ’s process innovation, the quantum hardware arms race just leapt ahead.

Across the industry, the energy is palpable. Over three hundred million dollars just flowed into IQM Quantum Computers’ hardware push, while hybrid quantum-classical systems at Oak Ridge National Lab are poised to take on problems even today’s supercomputers can’t crack. The cloud giants—IBM, Google, AWS—are customizing data centers in anticipation of routine quantum workflows. And now, synthetic diamond is making scalable, distributed quantum memory and photonic quantum networks not distant dreams but near-term realities.

As I walk the aisles of our own lab, surrounded by racks of superconducting circuits, chilled to fractions of a degree above absolute zero, I can’t help but sense the analogy to world events: just as we seek connection across fragi

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This week, I found myself walking into the lab just as news broke—scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have unveiled a modular quantum processor, a breakthrough reminiscent of snapping LEGO bricks together. I’m Leo, your resident quantum computing specialist, and today I’m bringing you the dramatic pulse of this hardware milestone: real modularity, real scalability, and fidelity that reaches an astonishing 99%, all on a superconducting platform.

Let me paint the scene. Picture rows of chilled nanoscopic chips, shimmering with liquid helium vapor under the dim blue light of an isolation chamber. Each module: a cluster of superconducting qubits, engineered to maintain quantum information with near-perfect precision. For years, building a large quantum computer has been like trying to assemble a cathedral out of matchsticks—any error, any stray vibration, and the whole tower collapses. But now, we can snap together smaller qubit modules, reconfigure, swap parts, even repair the system, all without losing control of the fragile quantum states within. Picture a child’s LEGO masterpiece—swap the red brick for the green, extend the castle—except our modules are ultra-sensitive quantum tiles readjusting themselves to form the next frontier of computation.

Why is modularity so vital? To answer, let’s talk bits and qubits. A classical bit is like a bookshelf—each can be either full or empty. A **qubit**? Think of a magician’s bookshelf: it’s both full and empty at once, at least until it’s observed! Stack enough qubits together and the number of possible quantum states outpaces classical ones exponentially. But just as stacking too many books risks collapse, joining too many fragile qubits without error correction and modular design risks losing quantum magic.

This hardware advancement isn’t just technical—it opens the door for **scalable quantum networks** and commercial quantum devices. Industry giants like IBM, Google, and startups like IonQ are now investing in these new architectures, each racing to reach quantum advantage. Meanwhile, Quantinuum’s H2 system just broke another Quantum Volume record, combining record-setting qubit fidelity with robust error correction. And, no surprise, investors are pumping billions into hardware startups following these technical wins.

September’s scientific breakthroughs extend far beyond research labs. Norway just announced over $100 million to fuel quantum innovation, while the Sanger Institute kicked off a grand challenge: encode and process a complete human genome on quantum hardware. If successful, it could redefine precision medicine and drug discovery, turning the impossible into routine.

As I power down my workstation, I see the parallels everywhere—from this week’s AI-led lab automation to quantum biotech and beyond. Modular quantum processors represent more than a leap for physicists. They’re stepping stones toward a world where quantum m

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This is Leo, your Learning Enhanced Operator, broadcasting from a chilly, humming control room not far from where so much quantum history is being written. Today, the latest milestone in quantum hardware isn’t just a headline—it’s a seismic shift. Just this past week, Caltech announced a quantum memory breakthrough that extends the lifetime of stored quantum information up to thirty times longer than before. Imagine a world where your fleeting ideas could be trapped inside a tuning fork and preserved for future use—well, Caltech’s team, led by Professor Mirhosseini, has found a way to make that metaphor a reality.

They achieved this astounding longevity by connecting a superconducting qubit on a chip to a mechanical oscillator—essentially a miniature gigahertz tuning fork. Qubits, if you will, are the actors in our quantum theater. Unlike classical bits, which are like light switches—strictly on or off—qubits can pirouette between on, off, and all points in between in a state called superposition. But qubits are notoriously fickle. Preserving their states has been the bane of every quantum engineer’s existence. That’s why this thirtyfold increase in memory time feels like breaking a land-speed record in quantum storage.

To ground this in something familiar: if classical bits are like marbles dropped in a simple bin, quantum bits are like marbles placed on a trampoline—they can bounce, hover, or get tangled up with their neighbors in an entanglement dance. But the trampoline is sitting in a gym full of random vibrations and winds that threaten to knock the marbles off at any moment. What Caltech’s tiny tuning fork does is shield those bouncing marbles from chaos, letting them hang in limbo long enough to become useful for computation, communication, or—soon—secure quantum networking.

Why does this matter now? Because on the horizon, we see international efforts racing ahead: IBM and AMD just revealed a bold alliance aiming for quantum-centric supercomputing architectures, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory has unveiled a flexible software blueprint to fuse quantum computing with the world’s fastest high-performance computers. These hybrid approaches echo what happened when CPUs teamed with GPUs, enabling today’s AI revolution.

And quantum’s reach keeps expanding. Companies like IonQ are presenting peer-reviewed advances in quantum algorithms for everything from fine-tuning language models to optimizing grid-scale energy use—efforts showcased this week at the IEEE Quantum Computing and Engineering conference. In genomics, Quantinuum’s computers are partnering with the Sanger Institute to store and process whole virus genomes—work that signals a quantum leap in decoding life itself.

As I watch these advances, I’m reminded of weather forecasts. Classical supercomputers can predict only a week out, but NASA just tapped Planette to develop quantum-inspired systems that aim to forecast extreme weather a ye

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This is Leo, your Learning Enhanced Operator, coming to you live from the heart of quantum innovation. Today is August 31, 2025, and the quantum hardware world has been utterly electrified by a milestone so profound, it’s like swapping out Edison’s lightbulb for a supernova.

Just days ago, the University of Sydney team stunned us with their creation of a universal quantum logic gate inside a single atom. Picture a city’s worth of classical computers crammed into a grain of sand—that’s the kind of space and efficiency leap we’re witnessing. They used the revered Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill, or GKP, code—think of it as the “Rosetta Stone” of quantum computing. Instead of wrangling clunky arrays of physical qubits, they entangled two quantum vibrations—each a quantum state—within a single ion, weaving logic gates so delicate yet so powerful, you could mistake the lab for a magician’s sanctuary.

Now, in classical computing, every bit is a sturdy switch—on or off. A roadmap, a traffic signal, nothing more. But a quantum bit—a qubit—can inhabit many realities simultaneously, powered by the spine-tingling phenomenon of superposition. What’s revolutionary this week is scale. Logical qubits, which we use for meaningful work, have traditionally demanded an army of physical qubits to correct cosmic levels of error. The Sydney breakthrough uses fewer qubits, making scaling less of an engineering war and more of a calculated dance. Imagine if an orchestra could produce Beethoven’s Ninth with only a handful of musicians, each simultaneously playing several instruments—it’s that kind of efficiency, that kind of symphonic entanglement.

What does this mean, practically? Quantum logic gates, the fundamental circuits necessary to program quantum processors, no longer require sprawling quantum hardware warehouses. Researchers like Mr. Matsos and Dr. Tan from Sydney have shown that high-quality error correction and hardware-efficient gates are within grasp. This is the toolkit we need for monumental efforts—simulating molecules for new drugs, optimizing traffic for entire cities, or decoding the genome in quantum timeframes.

When I strolled through the Sydney lab, the air was frosted by liquid helium, shimmering with lasers that chirped to trapped ions—a quantum ballet unfolding beneath magnifying lenses. And this wasn’t an isolated gust: across the world, scientists are advancing modular quantum chips that can be lashed together despite noisy connections, saying, “We don’t need perfect roads to build our quantum city. Good enough highways will let us travel far.” That’s how quantum hardware keeps leaping ahead: improvising, correcting, entangling, and ultimately transcending the limits of classical machines.

Quantum milestones don’t just shift our technology; they reflect a deeper truth in today’s age—growth comes from clever connection, robust correction, and an openness to new states of being. As quantum bits outperfo

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Today on Quantum Tech Updates, I hardly have time for pleasantries, because what just happened in Sydney might be the Rosetta Stone moment for quantum hardware. Picture this: inside a single Ytterbium atom, researchers at the University of Sydney have done what used to take racks of hardware—entangled two distinct quantum vibrations, mapping out logic gates with a finesse we only dreamed of even five years ago.

Using the Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill, or GKP, error-correcting code—think of it as the spellbook of quantum resilience—they carved out a logic gate so efficient, so elegant, it slashes the number of physical qubits needed per single logical qubit. For context, in classical computing, bits are either ones or zeros, the digital on-off switches that built the modern world. Quantum bits, or qubits, surf a cosmic wave: they can be both zero and one at once, thanks to the magic called superposition. But get this—the more you want your qubits to do, the more of them you usually need. The Sydney group’s work changes that math in a fundamental way.

Let me give you a sense of scale. Imagine building a cathedral—every logical qubit is a vault by itself. Until now, the scaffolding needed dwarfed the main structure. But by entangling vibrational modes in a single atom, physicist Giacomo Matsos and his team sculpted the whole vault with barely any scaffolding. Two “quantum vibrations” inside one atom, interlaced with such precision that error correction and logic operations are handled almost in their native tongue. It’s a leap for hardware that makes assembling a large-scale, reliable quantum computer actually seem within reach.

And this isn’t happening in a vacuum. Across the globe, Caltech just gave us a quantum memory device using tiny tuning forks—mechanical oscillators that hold quantum information for thirty times longer than the best superconducting qubits we had before. Imagine being able to store a superposed “maybe” answer, walk away, and come back to it—intact—minutes later. That’s as dramatic as freezing a droplet of water in midair and returning to find its quantum possibilities still shimmering.

Meanwhile, Japan’s new homegrown quantum computer, showcased this week in Osaka, signals a national pivot to sovereign quantum infrastructure. All components are locally manufactured, even the cryogenic “chandelier” that chills its superconducting qubits to near absolute zero. It’s no longer just about adding more qubits but protecting every precious quantum state from the slings and arrows of classical chaos.

If you ask me, the world of quantum hardware is moving from brute-force to brushstroke. Like the Sanger Institute’s just-announced effort to process a complete genome with Quantinuum’s System H2—currently holding the record for quantum volume—this week’s breakthroughs confirm quantum’s shift from delicate experiment to foundational tool.

Quantum computing, like the story of modern discovery, i

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What a week to be living at the edge of the quantum frontier. I’m Leo, your Learning Enhanced Operator, and today’s Quantum Tech Updates comes to you from the center of the storm—a storm of breakthroughs. Picture this: earlier this week, at the Quantum Control Laboratory in Sydney, a shimmering ytterbium ion pulsed with quantum vibrations, each vibration neatly encoded with the legendary Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill code. If classical bits are like flipping a coin heads or tails, GKP qubits are like holding the coin in a breeze—its position isn’t just up or down, but anywhere in between, and with error correction so elegant it’s called the Rosetta Stone of quantum computing. The Sydney team realized a universal logic gate in a single trapped atom, entangling quantum vibrations, slashing hardware requirements, and bringing practical quantum computers closer than ever. These gates aren’t just smaller—they’re fundamentally more efficient; it’s as if we squeezed an orchestra onto a single violin and still heard the entire symphony.

Now, let’s talk about modular scale: you don’t have to wait for perfect instruments to build a symphony. The University of California, Riverside, just simulated connecting multiple small, noisy quantum chips into a fault-tolerant super-system. Imagine assembling puzzle pieces with frayed edges and still seeing the full picture. Even when connection noise was ten times worse than chip noise, their distributed error correction held strong. Mohamed Shalby, first author, summed it up, “We don’t have to wait for perfect hardware to scale quantum computers.” Connect what you’ve got, patch up the errors, and build bigger quantum engines—right now.

Meanwhile, in Japan, there’s been a homegrown milestone: at Expo 2025 in Osaka, the first quantum computer built entirely with Japanese components is humming away at the University of Osaka’s Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Biology. Superconducting qubits cooled to near absolute zero, open-source software, and dazzling local materials—the system runs on an OQTOPUS toolchain, and the chip came from RIKEN. If classical computing is assembling imported machinery, quantum is becoming artisanal—each part crafted for coherence and precision, each operation a dance at the threshold of physics.

But sometimes, what we discard holds the key. On August 23, USC physicists showed that a neglected quasiparticle, nicknamed the neglecton, can transform Ising anyons—usually limited in computational scope—into universal operators for topological quantum computing. It’s a bit like finding treasure in what everyone else saw as mathematical garbage. By braiding these particles around one another, quantum information hides in structurally stable “rooms” while instability is quarantined. It’s math meeting hardware in a drama fit for the theater.

These milestones aren’t just technical—they're harbingers. The line between the lab and real-world impact vani

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No long preamble—today, I want you to picture the hum in a quantum lab as the latest hardware milestone reverberates through the field. My name is Leo, Learning Enhanced Operator, quantum specialist, and yes, part amateur dramatist. In the past few days, we witnessed a major advance: scientists at the University of Sydney unveiled an entangling logic gate inside a single atom—a trapped ytterbium ion. This might sound abstract, but let me make it tangible for you.

Imagine classical bits, those binary soldiers that fill your laptop, forever flipping between zero and one. Now step into quantum’s cerebrum: **qubits**, which can juggle zero, one, and all their shadowy combinations thanks to superposition and entanglement. Traditionally, error correction in quantum computing—the lifeblood of reliable quantum operations—has been Achilles’ heel, demanding dozens or hundreds of finicky physical qubits for each logical qubit. But Sydney’s team, building on the Gottesman–Kitaev–Preskill code, packed two error-protected logical qubits in the vibrations of just one trapped atom. Their experiment, published just this week in Nature Physics, slashed hardware overhead and proved you can run a universal gate set inside a single atomic ion.

A moment, please: this is the quantum equivalent of compressing an orchestra into a single violin, and still playing Beethoven’s Fifth. For every quantum engineer staring at server racks bristling with cryogenic plumbing—this leap feels like discovering a shortcut built directly into quantum nature itself.

Hardware isn’t the only theater of quantum drama this week. At Columbia Engineering, researchers rolled out HyperQ, a new virtualization system for quantum cloud computing. Like letting a dozen musicians share a single grand piano—HyperQ promises to transform quantum resource management by supporting multiple concurrent users across one quantum chip, making labs and cloud providers like IBM, Google, and Amazon far more efficient.

But let’s not overlook the wilder side of quantum research. Mathematicians at USC discovered the “neglecton”—a formerly discarded quasiparticle—could finally let physicists piece together universal topological quantum computers. By using a stationary neglecton as an anchor and braiding other anyons around it, the USC team showed we can perform all logic gates through abstract quantum choreography. It’s as if a ghost note in a symphony turned out to be the linchpin for the entire composition.

What does all this mean outside the lab? Just as AI has begun reshaping business, quantum leaps like these will redefine what’s computationally possible—from medical simulations to machine learning and logistics. As Emily Fontaine from IBM recently put it, quantum now stands “on equal footing” with AI in the race for transformative tech.

So if the world feels unpredictable, remember: inside quantum labs, chaos is a principle and order emerges from entanglement. Th

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August has delivered another seismic shift for quantum hardware, so let’s dive right in. If you thought last week’s AI news was revolutionary, the new developments in quantum photonics just nudged the field of classical computing off center stage.

Picture the beating heart of a quantum computer: not silicon transistors, but delicate latticeworks where light itself—photons—carry information as quantum bits, or qubits. Just days ago, Xanadu and HyperLight revealed a breakthrough in photonic chip technology with their ultra-low-loss, thin-film lithium niobate chips. Here’s why this matters. Previously, the loss of photons in quantum chips was like a leaky bucket in a race—no matter how fast you filled it, information kept draining out. But these new chips set a record: waveguide losses below 2 dB per meter and switch losses around a mere 20 millidecibels, making them among the most efficient electro-optic switches to date.

To put that in classical terms—imagine comparing a quantum bit to a classical bit. Classical bits are like light switches: on or off, a clear yes or no. Qubits, though, can be both on and off simultaneously, thanks to superposition, and they can “dance” together through entanglement. This means, in the right setup, a few photonic qubits can hold and process exponentially more information than millions of classical bits. Xanadu’s leap isn’t just about cramming more qubits in; it’s about holding their quantum dance longer and orchestrating more complicated routines before decoherence—the bane of quantum hardware—drowns out the music.

It’s especially exhilarating because these photonic chips were produced in a high-volume semiconductor facility. That’s huge. For years, quantum processors were like rare luxury cars: hand-tuned prototypes, precious and not ready for cities teeming with commuters. Now, the assembly line is humming with quantum potential, pushing computation towards the masses.

But that’s not the only leap this week. Quantum scientists at the University of Sydney demonstrated a single-atom entangling logic gate that cuts down the number of physical qubits needed for reliable computations—like translating a whole encyclopedia into a single Rosetta Stone disk. By encoding logical qubits with a special error-correcting code, two qubits were perfectly entangled inside a single trapped ion—shrink-wrapping quantum power into less hardware.

With advances like these, we’re approaching utility-scale quantum computing. Just as 2025’s heatwaves have forced us to think smarter about energy, the quantum world is finding ways to do more with less. Photonic platforms and hyper-efficient logic gates are rewriting the rules, transforming quantum devices from lab curiosities into engines of innovation.

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The air in my lab buzzed like a Tesla coil this morning—quantum breakthroughs tend to warp the very atmosphere. I’m Leo—the Learning Enhanced Operator—and today on Quantum Tech Updates, I’m diving straight into the latest hardware milestone that’s sending shockwaves through the quantum world.

Picture this: a team spanning Sweden and Finland has unveiled an exotic quantum material that uses magnetism as armor for fragile qubits. For years, qubits—the quantum equivalent of classical bits—have been as temperamental as a soufflé: a slight disturbance in temperature, or a stray magnetic field, and you’re left with mush. But now, researchers at Chalmers University and Aalto have created a material showcasing robust topological excitations. What does that mean? Imagine if our data bits could wear noise-cancelling headphones. Classical bits are like light switches—either on or off. Qubits? They exist in all positions, flickering between on, off, and everything in between, a shimmering landscape of possibilities. But just as a whisper can disrupt a violin string, these quantum states are easily broken. This new material keeps qubits singing perfectly on pitch, even when the world gets noisy—a staggering leap toward fault-tolerant quantum computers.

It’s not the only August breakthrough: Rigetti Computing just rolled out the industry’s largest multi-chip quantum processor, slashing error rates and showcasing the path to reliable scale. Better error-resilient qubits and modular chips—think Lego blocks for quantum logic—mean we’re finally at the threshold where quantum might solve problems too monstrous for even the biggest classical supercomputers.

Now, let’s zoom in closer—past the dazzling world of hardware—into cloud-style quantum virtualization. Columbia Engineering’s new HyperQ system lets multiple users share a quantum processor, like carpooling in a million-dollar racecar that previously drove itself in circles solo. Classical computers already use virtualization all day long; now, quantum researchers are queuing up rapid-fire experiments, squeezing more discovery from every precious qubit. This isn’t just convenient—it’s world-accelerating. The fastest new drug designs, supply chain optimizations, even climate simulations might spring from this crowded-yet-ordered quantum “server room.”

Take a moment to connect these quantum advances to the events reshaping our world. The push for cleaner energy, accelerated AI, the global race for super-secure communications—it’s all underpinned by breakthroughs like these. Quantum isn’t just sci-fi anymore. Every improvement in stability, scale, or accessibility rewires our future possibilities.

And if you’re wondering about the bigger picture, just look at current collaborations: IonQ’s massive funding round and Rigetti’s hardware leap are evidence that quantum investments are no longer moonshots—they’re becoming moon missions, with nations and industries fighting

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