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New Quantum Computer Fires Up 98 Ions ⚡ экспресс

Original: "Helios: A 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer"
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arXiv:2511.05465 · 2025-11-07 · CC BY 4.0 · ⏱ 1 min · Quantum Physics Atomic Physics
Engineers built a quantum processor from 98 barium ions that makes very few errors.
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Imagine a carousel of 98 glowing atoms juggling information. An error occurs less than once every 10,000 operations. Such a computer has already outgrown any classical one — its calculations cannot be replicated without quantum magic. Next stop: artificial intelligence and new drugs.

🎯 Barium-137 was not chosen by chance: its energy levels are so convenient that a laser tunes them like a remote flips through TV channels.

🎬 Such a machine resembles the quantum computer from Arthur C. Clarke's novel, capable of modeling consciousness.

Scientists
Christian DopplerD. B. McLaughlinDidier QuelozMichel MayorR. A. RossiterAlbert Einstein
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entropy speed of light spectroscopy
Laws
second law of thermodynamicsDoppler effectprinciple of constancy of the speed of lightBekenstein-Hawking entropymass–energy equivalenceMaxwell's equations
Original: arXiv:2511.05465 · CC BY 4.0 · bridge42worlds