AWS recently opened its new Center for Quantum Computing in California, where it plans to build a large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computer. The center will have a team of researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), experts from Amazon, and researchers from academic institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new building includes offices for quantum research teams and laboratories equipped with specialized tools ranging from cryogenic cooling systems to wiring – all parts of the materials needed to build quantum hardware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While there are several approaches to building quantum hardware, AWS focuses on superconducting qubits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To explain why AWS uses qubits, Nadia Carlsten, head of product at the AWS Center for Quantum Computing, noted in her interview with ZDNet: “Superconducting qubits have several advantages, one of them being that they can leverage microfabrication techniques derived from the semiconductor industry. We can fab large numbers of qubits on a silicon wafer and do it in a repeatable way, and that scalability will be important.”<\/p>\n\n\n