Olivier Pfister, a professor of physics in the University of Virginia’s College of Arts & Sciences, has published findings in the journal Physical Review Letters demonstrating a breakthrough in the creation of massive numbers of entangled qubits, more precisely a multilevel variant thereof called Qmodes.Pfister and researchers in his lab used sophisticated lasers to engineer 15 groups of four entangled Qmodes each, for a total of 60 measurable Qmodes, the most ever created. They believe they may have created as many as 150 groups, or 600 Qmodes, but could measure only 60 with the techniques they used.Each Qmode is a sharply defined color of the electromagnetic field. The Qmode measurement outcomes are the number of quantum particles of light (photons) present in the field. Hundreds to thousands of Qmodes would be needed to create a quantum computer.Learn more from the University of Virginia.
Physics Professor Accomplishes Breakthrough toward Quantum Computing
