D-Wave published a Nature paper demonstrating entanglement between two dual-rail qubits, a key milestone for its gate-based quantum computing efforts. The company acquired Quantum Circuits, a Yale spinout, to pursue this erasure-qubit technology where the most common error—photon loss—is easily detectable, simplifying error correction.
Background
D-Wave has long been known for quantum annealers rather than gate-based quantum computers. The dual-rail qubit approach, also used by Amazon, represents a promising path toward practical error-tolerant quantum computing.
- Source
- Ars Technica
- Published
- Aug 6, 2026 at 12:37 AM
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- 7.0 / 10