Image of the IonQ Ion Trap Chip

February 9, 2023December 12, 2018 by Brian Wang

Here is a high-resolution picture of the IonQ ion trap (image credit is Kai Hudek). The ion qubits are suspended electromagnetically in the center above the thin slot you see in the middle of the bow tie. Control lasers pass across and above the surface of the chip perpendicular to the slot. Yesterday, IonQ announced …

IonQ Has the Most Powerful Quantum Computers With 79 Trapped Ion Qubits and 160 Stored Qubits

February 9, 2023December 11, 2018 by Brian Wang

IonQ just made a presentation on two new trapped ion quantum computers with 160 stored and 79 processing qubits. This is more qubits than the best noisy superconducting quantum computers which is currently the Google 72 Qubit Bristlecone processor. The IonQ Website is here https://ionq.co/ The Q2B conference website is at this link and was …