Government & Labs
The Cavity That Remembers: Fermilab's Bet on Qubits That Last Seconds
RafayelMost qubits forget in a hurry. A good superconducting transmon holds its quantum state for a few hundred microseconds before noise erases it. That is...
The Open Testbed: Sandia's Trapped-Ion Machine Built for Tinkerers
Rent time on a commercial quantum computer and you get a tidy experience. You submit a circuit, the machine compiles it, runs it thousands of times, a...
The Zuchongzhi Run: China's Superconducting Bid for Quantum Advantage
When people talk about the race to a useful quantum computer, the conversation usually orbits a handful of American and European names. But one of the...
The Sovereign Machine: Why Countries Race to Own a Quantum Computer
For years, the easiest way to touch a quantum computer was to open a laptop and log into someone else's. IBM, Google, and a handful of startups put th...
The National Lab Testbed: How Governments Became Quantum's Proving Ground
When a quantum computing company shows off a new processor, the demonstration usually comes with a polished interface and a fixed set of operations. Y...