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
• 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
• These machines harness a quantum effect known as superposition, in which a qubit can somehow be both 0 and 1 at the same time.
  — Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2014
• Quantum computers use the principles of quantum mechanics to form their circuits, with each unit of the circuit called a qubit.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2022
• Because the qubits are so easy to control, the experiment provides a new precision to these sorts of measurements.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 May 2023

Last Updated: 6 Sep 2024