SuperQ builds Super Nova processor at Waterloo’s quantum lab
SuperQ Quantum Computing is developing a modular hybrid computer called Super Nova. Hardware for the processor is being built in the laboratory of Professor Matteo Mariantoni at the University of Waterloo.
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What this could mean
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Within two years, SuperQ could use the Waterloo-built Super Nova to demonstrate multi-module operation of separately fabricated superconducting qubit packages connected through a shared quantum bus, offering an early testbed for modular fault-tolerant architectures.
Professor Mariantoni's group has prior research on modular superconducting architectures and quantum buses, and building hardware in an established university cleanroom lowers integration risk. The key remaining precondition is successful low-error coupling of multiple modules.
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