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Novel Design greatly Improves Output from Commercial Circuit Boards next to Superconducting Qubits

Green commercial circuit boards—the largest is 11.4 cm (4.5 in) by 19 cm (7.5  in)—inside a dilution refrigerator. When enclosed and pumped down, the system reaches temperatures only a few thousandths of a degree above absolute zero. Credit: NIST

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have constructed and tested a system that allows commercial electronic components—such as microprocessors on circuit boards—to operate in close proximity with ultracold devices employed in quantum information processing. That design allows 4X as much data to be output for the same number of connected wires.

In the rising excitement about quantum computing, it can be easy to overlook the physical fact that the data produced by manipulation of quantum bits (qubit...

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