How to Use qubit in a Sentence

qubit

noun

• This gives you a quantum bit, or qubit, which can be a 0 or 1 at the same time.
  — Dan Hurley, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2020
• The team were then able to measure the effect of the tardigrade on the qubit’s properties.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2021
• The Hamiltonian describes how the qubits change from one moment to the next.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
• These can be measured to infer the state of each qubit that's part of the logical qubit.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 22 Feb. 2023
• Then, the company will work to scale up the number of qubits that are linked together.
  — Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 22 June 2023
• The smallest unit of a quantum computer is called the quantum bit, or qubit.
  — Discover Magazine, 21 June 2024
• Instead, a qubit of a quantum computer can be both at the same time, i.e. one and zero.
  — Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2023
• The time that a qubit retains its quantum state is called its coherence time.
  — Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• In the case of qubits, they can be correlated in a similar way.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
• And a qubit without spin can maintain its quantum state for a longer period of time.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 June 2024
• But Goswami and co say even the best quantum algorithms require a large number of qubits.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2024
• Each photon read out at the end of the process is equivalent to a qubit, revealing the result of a calculation.
  — Tom Simonite, Wired, 3 Dec. 2020
• The qubits are programmed by firing lasers at them, which requires a lot of optical hardware.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Oct. 2023
• Once in the past, Bob, an intruder, measures Alice’s qubit, changing it.
  — Sophie Putka, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2020
• Quantum bits are also known as qubits and are the basis of quantum computers.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 10 May 2023
• That means the extra qubits required by Regev’s algorithm could be a major drawback.
  — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 17 Oct. 2023
• Due to a property called superposition, a qubit can represent both a 0 and 1 at the same time.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2020
• In their simulations, the researchers found the qubit didn't change—or even affect—the original timeline.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 30 July 2020
• What’s more, molecular qubits can have very long coherence times.
  — Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
• The qubit is a particle in a quantum superposition of two states.
  — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 3 Sep. 2020
• The friend can be thought of as a quantum bit, or qubit, which can be 0 (the photon has taken one path) or 1 (it’s taken the other path), or in some superposition of both.
  — Quanta Magazine, 3 Dec. 2020
• Charlie, however, always measures the qubit with the same basis.
  — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
• Bigger blocks of shoddy qubits are needed to more strongly protect the reliable qubit.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Aug. 2023
• Our team decided to solve the problem by connecting each qubit to fewer neighbors.
  — Zaira Nazario, Scientific American, 1 May 2022
• For certain types of problems, potential solutions can be thought of as quantum waves sloshing among the qubits.
  — science.org, 10 June 2024
• Google’s qubits are made of aluminum; IBM uses a mix of aluminum and niobium, the two most often used materials for this qubit type.
  — Katherine Wright, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
• But qubits, the atomlike building blocks of quantum computers, are fragile.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 9 May 2023
• Each qubit is controlled by a dedicated wire, which the technician, seated on a stool, attached by hand.
  — Stephen Witt, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
• However, such machines would require thousands or even millions of qubits with low error rates—a technological milestone that is still years, if not decades, away.
  — Craig S. Smith, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
• A number of companies are experimenting with hardware qubit designs that can flag when one type of common error occurs, and there has been progress with developing logical qubits that enable error correction.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Dec 2024