Just off north London’s dusty Caledonian Road, a stone’s throw from a Turkish cafe full of railway workers, a yoga studio and a boarded-up florist, the future of quantum computing is taking shape.
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John Morton and James Palles-Dimmock outside the Quantum Motion lab
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The quantum chip sits inside the gold cylinder, which attaches to the bottom of the dilution fridge.
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Silicon chip manufactured at CEA Leti containing an array of devices, wired bonded onto a Quantum Motion board
The cover is on, and this one is working. The smaller black cylinder "docks" with the computer to change the cartridges that hold the quantum processors
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