Today, Zurich Instruments announced the ZQCS Quantum Control System, a next-generation platform to operate large-scale quantum computers.
It is engineered to tackle the pivotal challenge on the path to fault-tolerant quantum computing: building long-lived logical qubits.
Image Credit: Zurich Instruments AG Physical qubits are fragile; noise and drift can erase quantum information in microseconds.
The remedy is to use logical qubits, which encode quantum information across many physical qubits, thereby enabling error correction.
The ZQCS is the control system built to meet these needs, uniting scalable direct-RF electronics, deterministic real-time networking, and powerful software.