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Princeton Researchers Achieve Breakthrough in Superconducting Qubits

11/5/2025

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Researchers at Princeton University have developed a superconducting qubit with a lifespan exceeding one millisecond, significantly boosting its coherence time.
The qubit uses tantalum and high-resistivity silicon to achieve this performance.
The design integrates easily into existing semiconductor manufacturing and could enable large-scale quantum processors.
Lead researcher Andrew Houck of Princeton University led the work.
The findings were published in Nature.

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Researchers at Princeton University have developed a superconducting qubit with a lifespan exceeding one millisecond, significantly boosting its coherence time.
The qubit uses tantalum and high-resistivity silicon to achieve this performance.
The design integrates easily into existing semiconductor manufacturing and could enable large-scale quantum processors.
Lead researcher Andrew Houck of Princeton University led the work.
The findings were published in Nature.