NUST MISIS quantum processor

2023: Product Announcement

In early December 2023, NUST MISIS announced the creation of the first quantum processor in Russia with eight qubits. The technology was developed by specialists from the University Design Center for Quantum Design together with employees of the Russian Quantum Center (RCC).

During the control experiment, the NUST MISIS quantum processor showed a calculation accuracy of over 95%. This is the first device of this quantum volume in the country with such a high accuracy of operations, the university said. The development of increasingly powerful chips brings the creation of a quantum computer closer, the capabilities of which will be much superior to modern electronic computers.

8-qubit processor developed by NUST MISIS

We got a decent result. Our processor has eight qubits, but in terms of accuracy of two-qubit operations, it surpasses, for example, the 80 qubit processor previously presented by Rigetti, which ranked second in the world in terms of the number of physical qubits among superconducting processors, "said Natalia Maleeva, senior researcher at the Laboratory of Cryoelectronic Systems and co-founder of the design center for quantum design NUST MISIS.

He added that achieving high accuracy in performing quantum logic operations by individual qubits plays no less important role than increasing their number in a quantum processor.

One of the main architects of the quantum processor Elena Egorova, a researcher at the RCC, an engineer at NITU MISIS, clarified that the quantum processor consists of qubits of a new type of concentric shape and tunable communication elements between them. This method of communication, according to Yegorova, is considered the most promising by the end of 2023, since it allows you to regulate the interaction between qubits and prevents the leakage of the quantum state from the computing space.^[1]

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