Amazon Web Services unveils Ocelot quantum computing chip
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Summary
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has developed Ocelot, a quantum computing chip.
The company said its chip’s hardware efficiently implements quantum error correction, reducing the costs of doing so by up to 90%.
The advance centres on using logical qubit memory chips that consist of bosonic error correction that surpasses traditional qubit approaches and enables scalable quantum computers.
Bosonic quantum error correction uses more oscillator states to better protect quantum information from environmental noise and to more efficiently correct errors.
The logical qubit memory chip, Ocelot, is composed of five cat data qubits, two transmon, and four buffer circuits for protection against bit flip errors, with a repetition code to correct phase flip errors.
AWS believes Ocelot’s architecture positions it well for the next stage of quantum computing and learning how to scale, benefiting society and saving costs.