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Quantum computing firm PsiQuantum is partnering with universities and a national lab to build the largest US-based quantum computing facility, the company announced today.
The firm, which has headquarters in California, says it aims to house a quantum computer containing up to one million quantum bits, or qubits, within the next 10 years. At the moment, the largest quantum computers have around 1000 qubits.
Quantum computers promise to do a wide-range of tasks, from drug discovery to cryptography, at record-breaking speeds. Companies are using a range of different approaches to build the systems and working hard to scale them up. Both Google and IBM, for example, make the qubits in their systems out of superconducting material. IonQ makes qubits by trapping ions using electromagnetic fields. PsiQuantum is building qubits from photons.
A major benefit of photonic quantum computing is the ability to operate at
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