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It's not just superconductivity that you need. You also need to reduce thermal noise to maintain coherence between qubits. mill-Kelvin is the typical temperatur
by knopyPusher 8y ago
It's not just superconductivity that you need. You also need to reduce thermal noise to maintain coherence between qubits. mill-Kelvin is the typical temperature range D-Wave computers go to [1], for instance.
In fact, when you see large mainframe-like pictures of quantum computers, the big box mostly contains cooling equipment. The actual circuitry is pretty small.
[1] https://www.dwavesys.com/tutorials/background-reading-series/introduction-d-wave-quantum-hardware https://www.dwavesys.com/tutorials/background-reading-series...