Light in a Cryostat: How Imperfect Converters Build Quantum Bridges
A superconducting quantum processor is like a microscopic metropolis locked in a cryogenic fridge: streets of superconducting lines, blocks of qubits. Each resident demands silence and cold, but expanding the city inside a single cryostat is like stacking skyscrapers in a cramped courtyard — wires heat the environment, noise builds up, coherence threatens to collapse.