How to Use qubit in a Sentence

qubit

noun
  • One among them is the lifetime of the qubit itself.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
  • The group now aims to entangle the qubits.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Each qubit had a specific role.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 13 Dec. 2025
  • This was the grandfather of qubits.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 8 Oct. 2025
  • On their own, those qubits emit weak RF signals.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Jan. 2021
  • Optical tweezers can trap the atoms, which act as qubits, and hold them or move them around.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 June 2026
  • The 20 qubit machine will be installed in the third quarter of this year.
    — Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Despite that, the company laid out a roadmap based on building qubits out of pairs of these nanowires.
    — ArsTechnica, 3 June 2026
  • The researchers used 77 qubits (quantum bits), a new record, during the process.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Google increased the number of qubits from 53 to 105 in six years.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Their information storage units are not referred to as qubits alone but as cat qubits.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Some academics believe the threat window may decrease more due to rapid qubit scaling.
    — Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
  • Quantum devices use qubits that can exist in multiple states at once.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The latter are errors where information stored on qubits is lost and not much can be done about them.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 9 June 2026
  • However, their progress has been stunted due to the fragile nature of qubits.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2025
  • All this depends on the strength and tunability of lasers, which suspend the atoms that make up qubits.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 12 May 2026
  • In such a machine, these qubits are entangled with one another.
    — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Apr. 2026
  • That matters because the race to useful quantum computing will not be won by qubit count alone.
    — Karl Freund, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
  • Most commercial systems stalled around the 100-qubit mark.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Dec. 2025
  • This controller decided how the second qubit (target qubit) would evolve.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Simple repetition does not work with qubits, because they cannot be copied and pasted.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Read about the quest to develop these machines here and see an illustrated field guide to qubits here.
    — Zeeya Merali, Scientific American, 19 May 2026
  • The researchers also proved that the gate can be applied to several thousands of qubits at the same time.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The main challenge the field needs to overcome is making more stable physical qubits.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 17 May 2026
  • However, the qubits used in quantum computing can have more than two distinct states.
    — Gary Skuse, The Conversation, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Our machine moves forward by a factor of two every logical qubit.
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 20 Mar. 2026
  • But the coherence time of transmon qubits has proven extremely hard to extend.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Since the qubits are entangled, similar changes appear in the qubits held by other agents.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 21 Dec. 2025
  • This interaction also causes the state of the noise qubits to change, which is why the key can only be used once.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Recent advances have resulted in lower error rates as more qubits are added.
    — Aldo Svaldi, Mercury News, 19 May 2026

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