Quantum computing, on the other hand, is based on quantum bits, or qubits.
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Qubit
//ˈkjubɪt//
Synonyms for "qubit" (3 found)
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16 translations across 16 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- kwabis noun (quantum bit)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 量子位元 noun (quantum bit)
Esperanto
1 entries- kvantumbito noun (quantum bit)
Finnish
1 entries- kubitti noun (quantum bit)
French
1 entries- qubit noun (quantum bit)
German
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Icelandic
1 entries- skammtabiti noun (quantum bit)
Italian
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Japanese
1 entries- 量子ビット noun (quantum bit)
Polish
1 entries- kubit noun (quantum bit)
Portuguese
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Russian
1 entries- куби́т noun (quantum bit)
Spanish
1 entries- cúbit noun (quantum bit)
Swedish
1 entries- kvantbit noun (quantum bit)
Turkish
1 entries- kübit noun (quantum bit)
Ukrainian
1 entries- кубі́т noun (quantum bit)
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Each extra qubit in a quantum machine doubles the number of simultaneous operations it can perform.
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Google’s Sycamore computer has all of 53 qubits to its name, as does a new IBM computer, installed online at the company’s Quantum Computation Center in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. System One, IBM’s black cube from tomorrow, only has 20 qubits.
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By harnessing that odd behavior, scientists can instead build a quantum bit, or qubit, which stores a combination of 1 and 0. Two qubits can hold four values at once. And as the number of qubits grows, a quantum computer becomes exponentially more powerful.
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