But qubits can exist in several states at once, rather than one at a time.
Even if up to a quarter of the qubits were lost, a quantum computer could still work.
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Going on to read them so that the values of their qubits can be known is doubly so.
Barrett and Stace have found that quantum computers can actually have a much higher threshold for losing qubits than previously thought.
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He spoke about why the company invested in private space transportation and explored the growth of transistors, qubits and human opportunities.
With sufficient cooling, Dr Birkl reckons, these traps could be made to hold on to just one atom each, thereby producing 80 individual qubits.
Five qubits is less computing power than a typical handheld calculator.
The quantum integrated circuit includes two quantum bits (qubits), a quantum communication bus, two bits of quantum memory, and a resetting register comprising a simple quantum computer.
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The hard part in quantum computing is containing those qubits.
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Using pulses of laser light aimed through the appropriate microlenses, the researchers were able to set each of the qubits into a particular initial state a necessary precursor to any calculation.
The qubits were "programmed" using radio pulses, and the results of the calculations read using nuclear magnetic resonance imaging equipment, the same kind of machine a medical doctor might use to look inside at an injured head.
Quantum-computing researchers have actually managed to build one of their fabled devices (though it had only three qubits), and have worked out the mathematics that would allow a bigger machine to solve hitherto hard problems in cryptography.
Quantum computers will not be able to supplant conventional computers until they reach a size of at least 100 qubits, and it would take at least several thousand qubits for them to be really useful for such heavy-duty tasks as code-breaking.
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