Physicists Set New World Record for Qubit Operation Accuracy

Giant atoms 'trapped' for record time at room temperature

Putting unusually large atoms in a box with cold copper sides helped researchers control them for an unprecedented 50 minutes at room-temperature, an improvement necessary for building more powerful quantum computers and simulators

Oxford University physicists break world record with 'major advance'

Oxford University has broken a world record with a "major advance".

Most accurate control of a single quantum bit achieved in Oxford lab brings useful quantum computing a step closer

A rendering of the Oxford University team’s ion trap chip. Credit: Dr Jochen Wolf and Dr Tom Harty. Physicists at the University of Oxford, UK have set a new world record for accurately controlling a single quantum bit as part of global scientific efforts to create useful quantum computers. The new level of accuracy is nearly 7 times greater than the previous record (achieved by the same team in 2014) and is reported in the Physical Review Lette…

Sharper than lightning: Oxford’s one-in-6. 7-million quantum breakthrough

Physicists at the University of Oxford have set a new global benchmark for the accuracy of controlling a single quantum bit, achieving the lowest-ever error rate for a quantum logic operation--just 0.000015%, or one error in 6.7 million operations. This record-breaking result represents nearly an order of magnitude improvement over the previous benchmark, set by the same research group a decade ago.

Physicists set new world record for qubit operation accuracy

Physicists at the University of Oxford have set a new global benchmark for the accuracy of controlling a single quantum bit, achieving the lowest-ever error rate for a quantum logic operation—just 0.000015%, or one error in 6.7 million operations. This record-breaking result represents nearly an order of magnitude improvement over the previous benchmark, set by the same research group a decade ago.

New Quantum Algorithm Factors Numbers With One Qubit

Quantum computers still can’t do much. Almost every time researchers have found something the high-tech machines should one day excel at, a classical algorithm comes along that can do it just as well on a regular computer. One notable exception? Taking apart numbers. In 1994, the mathematician Peter Shor devised an algorithm that would let quantum computers factor big numbers exponentially faster… Source