Quantum computers are poised to transform the world – enabling everything from advancements in drug discovery and material science to breakthroughs in supply chain routing and financial risk modeling.
Yet the cutting edge technology is fragile and can be difficult to deploy, explained Ivana Dimitrova, a professor of physics and electrical engineering at Northeastern University.
That’s partly because a single quantum computing machine today is too “ small and noisy” to process the hundreds of thousands of qubits — the units of information built from individual particles such as atoms, ions and photons — that power these machines to solve real challenges, Dimitrova, said.
One solution is linking quantum computing processors together to share their power in a process known as modular quantum computing. It’s a model that’s taken the quantum computing industry by storm in recent years, Dimitrova said, but it is similarly plagued with its own computational challenges. For instance, the links between the processors can be slow and have their own data interference issues.
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