One advantage of systems that use atoms or ions is that we can move them around.
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Manufacturing qubits that can move Manufacturing qubits that can move
- Ars Technica Biz & IT * Day & Night Manufacturing qubits that can move It’s hard to mix electronic manufacturing and flexible geometry. – May 8, 2026 7:13 pm Credit: To get quantum computing to work, we will ultimately need lots of high-quality qubits, which we can tie together into groups of error-corrected logical qubits.
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- Companies are taking distinct approaches to get there, but you can think of them as falling into two broad categories.
- Others are using atoms or photons as qubits, which give more consistent behavior but require lots of complicated hardware to manage.
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