Microsoft, in collaboration with Atom Computing, introduced a quantum system with 24 logical qubits, which is available for delivery in 2025; doubling the previous record of 12 reliable qubits.
Unveiled on Tuesday, this partnership has high-performance computing to successfully process the logical qubits, or quantum bits, marking a milestone in the journey to achieve fault-tolerant quantum computing.
“With 100 reliable qubits, we achieve scientific quantum advantage,” said Microsoft chief Satya Nadella, signalling a new era in quantum computing.
Speaking on the topic, Nadella addressed how these logical qubits are all interwoven, forming the foundation for the world’s most powerful quantum machines. To give you a sense of why this matters, adding a hundred of these reliable qubits would achieve scientific quantum advantage.
To enable next-generation quantum computers that surpass today’s noisy qubits, the tech giant is collaborating on a commercial offering that integrates scientific solutions in Azure with a quantum computing platform and the virtualisation layer he highlighted.
“We are excited to accelerate Atom Computing’s quantum capabilities with Microsoft as our partner. We believe that this collaboration uniquely positions us to scale and be first to reach scientific quantum advantage,” said Ben Bloom, PhD, Founder and CEO of Atom Computing in the blog post.
Atom Computing recently announced that they have achieved 99.6% two-qubit gate fidelity, which represents the highest fidelity of neutral-atom qubits in a commercial system and unlocks the ability to perform meaningful error correction.
By coupling their state-of-the-art neutral-atom qubits with Microsoft’s qubit-virtualisation system, they are now able to offer reliable logical qubits on a commercial quantum machine.
However, IBM has the largest qubit count of any IBM quantum processor, more than tripling the 127 qubits on the IBM Eagle processor unveiled in 2021.
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