So far, quantum computers have been held back by their extreme sensitivity to errors and external disturbances. The longer a quantum operation takes, the greater the risk that computational errors will occur. Now, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden, have developed a new method that allows a wide range of advanced quantum operations to be carried out more than a thousand times faster. The breakthrough addresses a well-known bottleneck in the field and paves the way for fault-tolerant quantum computing.

Chalmers researchers developed a method that performs bosonic quantum operations in one driving cycle, making operations over 1,000x faster.

So far, quantum computers have been held back by their extreme sensitivity to errors and external disturbances. The longer a quantum operation takes, the greater the risk that…