{"id":21752,"date":"2025-03-05T13:34:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T11:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/china-develops-quantum-computer-one-quadrillion-times-more-powerful\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T13:34:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T11:34:02","slug":"china-develops-quantum-computer-one-quadrillion-times-more-powerful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/china-develops-quantum-computer-one-quadrillion-times-more-powerful\/","title":{"rendered":"China Develops Quantum Computer &#8216;One Quadrillion Times More Powerful&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A research team from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) has developed a prototype superconducting quantum computer with 105 qubits and 182 connectors. The results were <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.134.090601\">published<\/a> in Physical Review Journals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-03-superconducting-quantum-processor-prototype-faster.html\">It is claimed<\/a> that Zuchongzhi 3.0 operates one quadrillion (a number with 15 zeros) times faster than the most powerful supercomputer and a million times faster than Google&#8217;s latest results. To assess the system&#8217;s capabilities, the USTC team performed a <span data-descr=\"one of the key performance tests for quantum processors\" class=\"old_tooltip\">random quantum circuit sampling task<\/span> using 83 qubits and 32 layers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Zuchongzhi 3.0 achieves:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span data-descr=\"the time interval during which qubits maintain their quantum state (superposition and entanglement) before information begins to be lost due to interactions with the environment (decoherence)\" class=\"old_tooltip\">coherence time<\/span> of 72 microseconds \u2014 a key parameter allowing for more complex computations;<\/li>\n<li>accuracy of parallel single-qubit operations at 99.90%;<\/li>\n<li>accuracy of parallel two-qubit operations at 99.62%;<\/li>\n<li>accuracy of parallel readout at 99.13%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For comparison, Google&#8217;s quantum computer \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/googles-quantum-chip-sparks-bitcoin-security-concerns\">Willow<\/a> \u2014 also has 105 qubits and a coherence time of 68 microseconds.<\/p>\n<p>The increased coherence time of Zuchongzhi 3.0 allows for more complex operations and computations.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers applied a <span data-descr=\"architecture of qubit arrangement where qubits are placed in a two-dimensional lattice (or grid) rather than a one-dimensional line\" class=\"old_tooltip\">two-dimensional grid<\/span> qubit architecture, ensuring efficient connections between them and enhancing data transmission speed.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Amazon introduced its first chip for quantum computing.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Microsoft announced its own solution \u2014 Majorana 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) has developed a prototype superconducting quantum computer with 105 qubits and 182 connectors. The results were published in Physical Review Journals. It is claimed that Zuchongzhi 3.0 operates one quadrillion (a number with 15 zeros) times faster than the most powerful supercomputer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[133,575,1360],"class_list":["post-21752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-china","tag-quantum-computers","tag-quantum-computing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"64","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}