How to Use qubit in a Sentence
qubit
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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
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One of the field’s main problems is the amount of errors that occur as more qubits (a.k.a.
—Martin Lerma, Robb Report, 10 Dec. 2024
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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
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The Hamiltonian describes how the qubits change from one moment to the next.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
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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
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Then, the company will work to scale up the number of qubits that are linked together.
—Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 22 June 2023
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The smallest unit of a quantum computer is called the quantum bit, or qubit.
—Discover Magazine, 21 June 2024
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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
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The time that a qubit retains its quantum state is called its coherence time.
—Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
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What is more straightforward are the modes of conveyance of qubits from one place to another.
—Lucas Laursen, IEEE Spectrum, 6 Jan. 2025
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In the case of qubits, they can be correlated in a similar way.
—Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
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The more qubits that are used, the more errors typically occur, Neven said.
—Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 9 Dec. 2024
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And a qubit without spin can maintain its quantum state for a longer period of time.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 June 2024
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In entanglement, if the state of one of the qubits is changed, the state of the other will instantly change in a predictable way — even if the qubits are far away from each other.
—Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 22 Jan. 2025
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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
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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
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The qubits are programmed by firing lasers at them, which requires a lot of optical hardware.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Oct. 2023
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Once in the past, Bob, an intruder, measures Alice’s qubit, changing it.
—Sophie Putka, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2020
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Quantum bits are also known as qubits and are the basis of quantum computers.
—Julia Musto, Fox News, 10 May 2023
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That means the extra qubits required by Regev’s algorithm could be a major drawback.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 17 Oct. 2023
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For reference, Google’s processors are now on the scale of about 100 physical qubits.
—Kevin Williams, CNBC, 22 Dec. 2024
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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
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In their simulations, the researchers found the qubit didn't change—or even affect—the original timeline.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 30 July 2020
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What’s more, molecular qubits can have very long coherence times.
—Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
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The qubit is a particle in a quantum superposition of two states.
—Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 3 Sep. 2020
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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
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Charlie, however, always measures the qubit with the same basis.
—Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
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Bigger blocks of shoddy qubits are needed to more strongly protect the reliable qubit.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Aug. 2023
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Our team decided to solve the problem by connecting each qubit to fewer neighbors.
—Zaira Nazario, Scientific American, 1 May 2022
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And as the number of qubits grows, a quantum computer becomes exponentially more powerful.
—Cade Metz, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
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