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by ablatt89 1244 days ago
What atoms are they using to entangle to create a qubit? How exactly are they entangling these qubits, and re-entangling them post-measurement? I can't find specifics on the quantum CPU architecture in terms of the actual atoms used for entanglement, and how any of the supposed qubits are re-entangled between measurements.
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"The quantum computers you interact with in IBM Quantum use a physical type of qubit called a superconducting transmon qubit, which is made from superconducting materials such as niobium and aluminum, patterned on a silicon substrate. Such systems are not natural qubits, but are instead formed by isolating two energy levels out of many to form our approximate qubit."

https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/composer/docs/iqx/guide/th...

I think IBM is superconducting