Google Quantum AI cut errors in the magic states made on its Willow chip roughly 40-fold, using a technique called cultivation. The states still fail about once in 10,000 attempts, Scientific American reported, against one in a million or better for simulating molecules.
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buildConfirmed5 publishers Google Quantum AI says magic state cultivation cut errors about 40x on its Willow chip, in a result published in Science. The up-to-95% overhead figure is an older estimate, and Google says the protocol still needs a larger-scale demonstration.
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Stanford team observes quantum jumps in phonons using thin-film lithium niobate
Stanford researchers report quantized jumps in phonons, the quanta of mechanical vibration, using thin-film lithium niobate devices. Team leader Amir Safavi-Naeini says error correction and mass spectrometry need phonon lifetimes 10 times longer.
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Rutgers and IBM reset up to 100 qubits mid-run to bring a chaotic quantum system under control
Rutgers and IBM researchers repeatedly measured and reset up to 100 qubits on a 156-qubit chip to bring a chaotic system under control. The Nature Physics study is among the largest real-time feedback-control demonstrations to date, a capability future fault-tolerant machines will need.
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Rutgers and IBM hold a 100-qubit chain in order with nearly 5,000 mid-run resets
Rutgers and IBM researchers reset qubits almost 5,000 times mid-calculation to push a 100-qubit chain from chaos into order. Present-day hardware can run the repeated loop that error correction depends on, though the demonstration stops short of a fault-tolerant machine.
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buildOne report1 publisher Quantinuum's Helios-1 keeps error-correction circuits usable at up to 91 data qubits in a Julich benchmark
Quantinuum's Helios-1 kept useful output in error-correction circuits of up to 91 data qubits, a Julich preprint benchmarking 10 processors found. Its benchmark needed only 50 runs per circuit to detect gains, a cheap check before committing to a full error-correction experiment.
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Oratomic hits $5.4bn in a quantum market Gartner expects to lose over half its startups by 2030
Oratomic raised $475m at a $5.4bn valuation, the Wall Street Journal reported, as Gartner forecast more than half of quantum startups will close by 2030. Anyone signing a multi-year quantum contract now has to judge whether the vendor lasts to its own delivery date.
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Warwick physicists propose phonons as a long-range link between germanium spin qubits
University of Warwick researchers propose phonons as a bus linking distant qubits on a germanium-on-silicon chip, in a June 15 APL Quantum paper. The links target the nearest-neighbour limit on error correction, and their claimed hardware savings over surface-acoustic-wave schemes are argued from the design without a measurement behind them yet.
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D-Wave opens a beta simulator for testing gate-model programs against dual-rail errors
D-Wave opened a beta of its gate-model simulator, letting customers write and test error-aware programs against its dual-rail qubit design. Teams can now check algorithms against that design's errors while fault-tolerant hardware stays on D-Wave's roadmap.
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The milestone is packaging, not qubits: box-shaped cryostats that pack in rows, a cold volume 12 times larger, and a coupler meant to knit hundreds of chips into one machine.
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Quantum jumps were caught in trapped ions in 1986 and in photons in 2007. A resonator that rings for two milliseconds, read out by a superconducting qubit, now shows a single phonon going to zero as it happens.
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Japan pins its neutral-atom quantum roadmap to a March 2031 target
Shunkai holds its qubits in optical tweezers at room temperature, starts with about 50 of them, and is slated to join a shared supercomputing facility as a quantum-GPU hybrid. Its scale-up target of 10,000 qubits is dated March 2031.
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IonQ says one standard CPU kept up with error correction for 408 simulated logical qubits
The 0.02% timing overhead comes from IonQ's own simulations of 88 memory blocks and magic factories, posted to arXiv. For anyone working through a cryptographic inventory, the readiness deadlines stand where they were.
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IonQ decodes 408 logical qubits in real time on twelve cores of an Apple M4 Max
IonQ researchers report a real-time error-correction decoder that added under 0.3% to runtime at a CNOT error rate of 10^-4, and under 12% at five times that rate, on workloads simulated against the company's own proposed architecture.
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Stanford catches single phonons jumping to zero inside a two-millisecond ringdown
Stanford physicists report in Science the first real-time observation of quantum jumps of sound, using a superconducting qubit to check a mechanical resonator hundreds of times during its two milliseconds of vibration.
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Fermilab cut a five-month fault-tolerance study to three weeks on Nvidia's new CUDA-Q layer
Nvidia's CUDA-Q Logical simulates logical qubits, error-correction codes and QPU architectures side by side. The two customer results it launched with come from an architecture startup and a national lab, and both are models.
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buildOne report1 publisher Backline claims sub-three-microsecond quantum-classical loop; hardware used unspecified
Xanadu and AMD have released an open-source plugin that treats a quantum processor as one node on a fast classical network. The whole case rests on a sub-three-microsecond loop time, and the announcement does not say how that figure was measured.
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A new IACR estimate sizes the secp256k1 break at 1,450 logical qubits and 40 million Toffoli gates
The algorithm-level numbers are the part of the estimate that can be recompiled onto any fault-tolerant machine, and the headline 25.7 days on 19,397 physical qubits belongs to the trapped-ion architecture its own authors proposed.
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IonQ's compiled secp256k1 break needs twice the qubits of its 2027 machine
IonQ's September 8 paper puts one secp256k1 key at just under 26 days on 20,000 physical qubits. The company's roadmap reaches 10,000 fault-tolerant qubits in 2027 and names no year for the larger machine.
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Chalmers theorists run a bosonic quantum gate in one driving cycle instead of thousands
A Physical Review Letters paper from Chalmers puts a wide class of bosonic operations inside a single driving cycle. The 1,000-fold figure counts cycles, and no fidelity or hardware measurement accompanies it.
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