China’s 176-qubit Quantum Computing Platform Goes Online
HEFEI, May 31 (Xinhua) — A 176-qubit quantum computing platform called “Zuchongzhi” became available online to users around the world on Wednesday evening, which is expected to boost the development of quantum computing hardware and its ecosystem. This was announced by the Institute of Quantum Information and Quantum Science and Technology Innovation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
According to Zhu Xiaobo, chief project engineer and professor at the China University of Science and Technology, the research team has improved the 66-qubit Zuchongzhi-2 chip by adding control interfaces for 110 linked qubits, which will allow users to work with 176 quantum bits.
Zuchongzhi-2 is a 66-qubit programmable quantum computing system created in 2021 that could scale-sample the output distributions of random quantum circuits about 10 million times faster than the fastest supercomputer at the time.
In doing so, the platform aims to achieve global excellence in key design metrics such as connectivity, fidelity, and interference time.
Peng Chengzhi, project executive vice director and chairman of QuantumCTek Co., Ltd., told reporters that the platform is open to users around the world and the public can try simple quantum computing programming and imaging experiments. Industrial users can learn new applications through remote access to quantum computers.
According to Peng Chengzhi, the platform will allow more and more users to apply and try quantum computing, which in turn will contribute to the development of the entire scientific field.
He also noted that in the future, his team plans to connect several high-performance quantum computers to the platform in order to maintain world-class backups and updates.
WtR