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Archive photograph of a wet-etch bench at Danchip, Denmark; not the planned Copenhagen quantum foundry.
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WetEtchBench.jpg

Archive photograph of a wet-etch bench at the Danchip cleanroom in Denmark. Context for chip fabrication—not the planned Quantum Foundry Copenhagen facility. Uploaded in 2006; capture date not supplied.

Used for: Quantum chips need a factory, too. Copenhagen has a plan
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“WetEtchBench.jpg” — Kristian Mølhave, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic.
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Historical contextual image, not a photograph of the planned Quantum Foundry Copenhagen facility. Retain creator, work title, source and license links; no implied endorsement. Cards and social previews link to the credited article.
Gold-colored refrigeration stages and wiring of an IBM Quantum System One at IBM's Yorktown Heights research center.
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IBM Quantum System One.jpg

IBM Quantum System One at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, photographed in 2024. Context image for IBM quantum hardware—not Nighthawk r2 or a verified Nighthawk installation.

Used for: IBM’s Nighthawk r2 Cuts the Wait Between Quantum Circuits
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“IBM Quantum System One.jpg” — Onri Jay Benally / OJB Quantum, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
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This is System One, not a photograph of Nighthawk r2 or a verified Nighthawk installation. Retain the exact System One identification in the caption.
Optical components, mounts and cables inside the JION trapped-ion quantum computer under violet light.
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01 JION eleQtron - by sichtplan

A detail of the JION trapped-ion quantum computer, released for its September 2026 launch at Forschungszentrum Jülich.

Used for: JION Launch Brings Microwave-Controlled Ions to Jülich
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“01 JION eleQtron - by sichtplan” — Sichtplan / Forschungszentrum Jülich. Explicit permission for press coverage of JION with source credit.
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Use with the JION news article and its editorial listing. This is a topic-specific press permission, not a blanket Creative Commons license for unrelated uses.
A small iridescent NIST Josephson voltage-standard chip beside a U.S. penny for scale.
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NIST Josephson voltage chip

A NIST Josephson voltage-standard chip beside a U.S. penny. Context for superconducting-device manufacturing; this is not a Princeton device or a qubit processor.

Used for: A $27.9 Million Institute Targets a Microscopic Quantum-Chip Bottleneck
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“NIST Josephson voltage chip” — NIST. NIST U.S. government work: public domain in the United States; royalty-free worldwide reuse under NIST's published terms.
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Feryal Clark wearing a headset beside illuminated server equipment during a visit to Cambridge's Dawn supercomputer.
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Minister Clark visit to the Dawn Supercomputer and Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre at Cambridge, United Kingdom on 13 January 2025 - 5.jpg

Feryal Clark visits Cambridge’s Dawn supercomputer in January 2025. Archive image of UK advanced-computing infrastructure, not the 2026 funding announcement or a quantum computer.

Used for: UKRI Opens £17 Million Call for Quantum, AI and Supercomputer Workflows
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“Minister Clark visit to the Dawn Supercomputer and Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre at Cambridge, United Kingdom on 13 January 2025 - 5.jpg” — Benjamin Britworth Collier / DSIT, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic.
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MIT’s Great Dome and columned facade across a green lawn, photographed in 2011.
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Great Dome, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA.jpg

MIT’s Great Dome, photographed on October 15, 2011. Campus context for the arm-qubit research; this is not a photograph of the proposed device.

Used for: MIT’s proposed qubit gives fragile memory an arm
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“Great Dome, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA.jpg” — John Phelan, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Bakhrom Oripov and Ryan Morgenstern mount a superconducting camera on a cryogenic stage at NIST.
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NIST researchers mount a superconducting camera

NIST’s Bakhrom Oripov, left, and Ryan Morgenstern mount a superconducting camera in an archive photograph published by NASA in May 2024. Context for photon-detector engineering; this is not the 2026 wide-detector experiment.

Used for: NIST’s bigger photon detectors have a quieter way to see
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Photograph by Adam McCaughan / NIST, published by NASA. NIST employee work: not subject to U.S. copyright protection; worldwide royalty-free reuse under NIST’s published terms.
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Researchers work at computer monitors in a QuTech laboratory marked Quantum Inspire.
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0049 Quantum Inspire

An archive view of Quantum Inspire’s working environment, supplied in QuTech’s 2023 press pack. Context for the new integration unit; this is not a photograph of its September 2026 launch.

Used for: A quantum chip is not a computer. QuTech is connecting the pieces
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“0049 Quantum Inspire” — Cheeseworks for QuTech. Supplied in QuTech’s Quantum Inspire press pack with permission for use in QuTech-related content and required filename credit.
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Use only for QuTech-related coverage. Credit exactly “Cheeseworks for QuTech”. This is a topic-specific press grant, not a blanket open license. Avoid implying the pictured individuals are members of the 2026 unit.
Conceptual illustration of a cut orange with a glowing blue molecular interior on a dark laboratory bench.
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Everyday matter, reimagined

An imagined molecular world inside an everyday orange. Conceptual illustration, not a scientific model.

Used for: Quantum Computers Could Change What the World Is Made Of
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Original illustration created for QubitWire using OpenAI image generation.
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Conceptual artwork; do not describe it as a photograph of an experiment, a real quantum material, or a scientific diagram.
Dr. Raphael Guerrero and a student conducting a laser experiment on an optical table at Ateneo de Manila University.
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Laser experiment - Photonics Laboratory - Physics Department - Ateneo de Manila University.jpg

A laser experiment in Ateneo de Manila University’s Photonics Laboratory, photographed in 2011. Context for the optical components discussed in AIST’s roadmap—not an AIST facility or a photonic quantum computer.

Used for: AIST Maps the Parts Photonic Quantum Computers Still Need
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“Laser experiment - Photonics Laboratory - Physics Department - Ateneo de Manila University.jpg” — Physics Department, Ateneo de Manila University, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Four-panel scientific figure showing walking-cat memory and magic-state blocks, decoder backlog, concurrent error and outcome decoding, and simulated schedule stretch versus physical CNOT error probability.
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Decoder architecture and benchmark stretch (Figure 1)

The preprint’s Figure 1 maps compiled circuits onto walking-cat memory blocks, shows how decoder backlog stalls a schedule and plots simulated stretch against assumed CNOT error probability. These are diagrams and simulation results, not a photograph or measurement of operating quantum hardware.

Used for: IonQ Preprint Tests MegaQuOp Decoding on One Laptop CPU
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“Decoder architecture and benchmark stretch” (Figure 1) by Min Ye, Andrii Maksymov and Nicolas Delfosse, from arXiv:2608.25027v2, CC BY 4.0.
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Retain title, authors, arXiv source, CC BY 4.0 license link and crop/render notice. Describe it only as the paper’s architecture diagrams and simulated decoder-stretch plot; do not present it as measured quantum hardware.
Concept diagram contrasting greedy block-by-block qubit routing with DPRQ looking back across three blocks, alongside simulated average and maximum EPR-cost reductions.
Original QubitWire conceptual diagram

A Smarter Qubit Router Cut Modeled Network Traffic by 24% — conceptual diagram

Original diagram of DPRQ's block-spanning routing idea beside a greedy block-local baseline. The 24.40% average and 85.06% maximum reductions are simulated EPR-cost results across the paper's 80 tested configurations, not hardware measurements.

Used for: A Smarter Qubit Router Cut Modeled Network Traffic by 24%
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Original conceptual diagram by QubitWire research and applications desk. Use with the exact honest concept-diagram caption; do not present as a hardware photo, measured network trace, literal topology, paper-figure reproduction or proof of end-to-end speedup.
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Conceptual diagram of many physical qubits feeding parity checks and a classical decoder to protect one logical qubit, with a note that Willow's 101-to-one memory example is not universal.
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Why One Logical Qubit Can Need 101 Physical Qubits — conceptual diagram

A logical qubit encodes information across physical data and measurement qubits while classical decoding interprets repeated parity checks. The 101-to-one callout is the Willow distance-7 memory example, not a universal conversion ratio.

Used for: Why One Logical Qubit Can Need 101 Physical Qubits
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Original conceptual diagram by QubitWire editorial desk. Use with the exact honest diagram caption; do not present as a photograph, literal processor layout or universal physical-to-logical ratio.
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Conceptual circular grating around a quantum dot, with a hole-spin arrow linked to a 1.55-micrometre photon and a callout for 21.8-nanosecond dephasing at 20 millitesla.
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Telecom Quantum Dot Keeps a Hole Spin Coherent for 21.8 Nanoseconds — conceptual diagram

Conceptual view of a hole spin in an InAs/InAlGaAs quantum dot coupled to 1.55-micrometre light through a circular Bragg grating. The reported T2* value is 21.8 ± 0.2 ns at 20 mT; this is not a device micrograph or measured plot.

Used for: Telecom Quantum Dot Keeps a Hole Spin Coherent for 21.8 Nanoseconds
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Original conceptual diagram by QubitWire hardware desk. Use with the exact honest conceptual-diagram caption; do not present as a micrograph, measurement curve, literal processor layout, network demonstration or universal coherence value.
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Four synthetic noise models and separate Willow hardware records enter shared decoding and scoring, followed by comparison of decoder rankings.
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Simulation Rankings Can Mislead Quantum Decoder Selection — conceptual diagram

Original conceptual diagram of the preprint’s simulation-to-hardware comparison. The shared comparison covers code distances 3, 5 and 7 over rounds 2–30; greater calibration did not consistently improve ranking agreement.

Used for: Simulation Rankings Can Mislead Quantum Decoder Selection
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Original QubitWire diagram. Source/method: Manor, Erhili and Jebbouri, arXiv:2609.04557v1 (2026). Use with the exact conceptual caption. Not a photograph, measured-results plot, claimed code release, peer-reviewed result or general advantage demonstration.
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Conceptual diagram of two superconducting qubits connected through two resonator paths and a tunable junction, with idle and activated interaction states.
Editorial use
Original QubitWire work

Conceptual double-resonator coupling paths

Conceptual view of the proposed double-resonator coupler: two abstract resonator paths link physical qubits through a tunable junction. This original diagram is not a fabricated device, measured layout or reproduction of the preprint's figures.

Used for: Double-Resonator Coupler Design Simulates a 20-Nanosecond CZ Gate
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Original QubitWire conceptual diagram based on factual architecture descriptions in Seunghyeon Jin et al., arXiv:2609.05222 (2026).
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Two-column conceptual diagram contrasting covered new QPU tasks with excluded simulation, notebooks, classical compute, reservations and prior work.
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Original QubitWire work

The scope of a Braket device spending limit

Original conceptual diagram of the scope described in AWS documentation. It is not an account test, hardware photograph or guarantee of total expenditure.

Used for: What a Braket Spending Limit Does Not Cover
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Original QubitWire conceptual diagram, rendered from QW10-authored SVG using factual AWS service-scope descriptions.
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Conceptual diagram showing a quantum address controlling conditional state transfer to left or right paths, with a note explaining erasure detection and discarded runs.
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How the Wukong quantum-router experiment directs and filters a query

Conceptual view of quantum-address routing and erasure detection in the Wukong experiment. The paper tested individual routers and a two-layer network; this original diagram is not the processor layout, a measured plot or a reproduction of the paper’s figure.

Used for: Wukong Tests a Two-Layer Quantum Memory Router
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Original QubitWire conceptual diagram based on factual method descriptions in Sheng Zhang et al., Physical Review X 16, 031051 (2026).
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Three-step conceptual diagram in which a referee prepares one subset state, a quantum player transforms and measures it, and the referee checks whether the returned bit string lies outside the original set.
Editorial use
Original QubitWire work

How the complement-sampling game checks quantum behavior

Simplified original diagram of the complement-sampling protocol. Each round uses one fresh subset-state copy; the reported hardware test reached 55 physical qubits while referee and player remained on one H2 processor.

Used for: Quantinuum's 55-Qubit Game Makes Non-Classicality Easier to Check
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Original QubitWire diagram. Source/method: Benedetti et al., Nature Communications (2026), DOI 10.1038/s41467-026-77413-3.
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Conceptual diagram showing voltage and power-flow feature wings feeding a 12-qubit quantum classification core, with the reported simulated balanced-accuracy change from 83.6 to 85.2 percent.
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Quantum wings for power-grid event classification

Original conceptual diagram of the paper's simulated wing architecture. Two three-qubit modules feed separate sensor features into a fixed 12-qubit core; the reported internal-validation result rose from 83.6% at 13 qubits to 85.2% at 19.

Used for: Quantum 'Wings' Give AI More Room to Read the Grid
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Original QubitWire diagram. Source/method: Kim et al., arXiv:2609.05408v1 (2026).
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Diagram showing SkyWater SC250 superconducting wafer services connected to a planned Qolab package containing cryogenic wiring, filters and amplifiers, with performance still unreported.
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SkyWater and Qolab Put a Foundry Model Behind Superconducting Hardware

The announced path links SkyWater's SC250 superconducting wafer services to Qolab's planned package for cryogenic wiring, filters and amplifiers; no completed SC250 processor or performance benchmark was disclosed.

Used for: SkyWater and Qolab Put a Foundry Model Behind Superconducting Hardware
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Diagram: QubitWire. Based on SkyWater and Qolab company materials reviewed September 8-9, 2026.
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Optical instruments, laser equipment and an ordinary desktop computer in the DARPA Quantum Network laboratory at BBN
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Entangled link — Alex optical system — DARPA Quantum Network

The Alex optical system for an entangled link in the DARPA Quantum Network at BBN, December 2004. This historical research setup provides context for the classical instruments and computers surrounding quantum experiments.

Used for: 5 Jobs Quantum Computers Still Give to Ordinary Computers
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“Entangled link - Alex optical system - DARPA Quantum Network - P1010004” by Daderot, CC0 1.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The apparatus was created by Boston University and BBN. Resized and converted to WebP by QubitWire; responsive cover display crops the visible frame.
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Historical quantum-network apparatus used as context; do not identify it as a current general-purpose quantum computer.
A vivid green laser passes through optical components used to control nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond in Gavin Morley’s laboratory
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Attocube table GWMorley

A 532-nanometre laser used to control individual nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond in Gavin Morley’s laboratory, photographed in 2016. Contextual quantum-optics photography; it does not show a teleportation experiment.

Used for: 5 Rules of Quantum Teleportation That Make It Stranger Than Science Fiction
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“Attocube table GWMorley” by Gavin Morley, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized and converted to WebP by QubitWire; responsive cover display crops the visible frame. This adaptation remains available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Credit creator, source and license. Keep any adapted image under CC BY-SA 4.0. Contextual imagery, not evidence of quantum teleportation.
The large octagonal MINOS particle detector inside an illuminated underground cavern at Soudan in Minnesota
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MINOS detector in the Soudan Underground Laboratory

The MINOS particle detector in Minnesota’s Soudan Underground Laboratory. This historical photograph provides context for experiments that study penetrating particles underground; it is not a quantum-computing installation.

Used for: A Cosmic Ray Can Spoil a Quantum Computer’s Day
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“U.S. Department of Energy - Science - 270 001 009 (9789433936)” by the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Government work in the public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized and converted to WebP by QubitWire; responsive cover display crops the visible frame.
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Three FMN Laboratory engineers in cleanroom clothing assemble the gold-colored cryogenic stages and wiring of a superconducting quantum computer
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Measuring a qubit leaves no room for error

Engineers at FMN Laboratory, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, assemble cryogenic quantum-computing hardware in December 2019. Hardware context for the control and measurement of superconducting qubits.

Used for: Your Quantum Program Gave a Different Answer. That May Be Good News.
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“Measuring a qubit leaves no room for error” by FMNLab; photographer Sergey Kushlevich, identified in the photograph’s metadata. CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized and converted to WebP by QubitWire; responsive cover display crops the visible frame.
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A small copper quantum-processor package containing a three-qubit chip rests in an open hand
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Quantum-computer-Chalmers 2017

A processor with three qubits and three readout cavities, fabricated at Chalmers University of Technology in 2017. This real device illustrates the physical hardware behind quantum algorithms; it is not a demonstration of the uncomputation example.

Used for: Quantum Computing Has a Hidden Chore: Cleaning Up After Itself
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“Quantum-computer-Chalmers 2017” by Anita Fors (Chalmers), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized and converted to WebP by QubitWire; responsive cover display crops the visible frame. This adaptation remains available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Three-stage diagram showing a $100 million research award supporting ion-trap wafers and optical components, while scaled delivery and fault-tolerant performance remain unproven.
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Quantinuum Finalizes a $100 Million CHIPS Research Award

Quantinuum says its final $100 million CHIPS R&D award will support ion-trap wafer, electronics, laser and optical-component work; scaled delivery, fault-tolerant workloads and independent performance remain unproven.

Used for: Quantinuum Finalizes a $100 Million CHIPS Research Award
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Diagram: QubitWire. Original contextual diagram based on Quantinuum's September 8 announcement and NIST CHIPS program context.
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Conceptual comparison of an unpartitioned superconducting chip with a tiled and interleaved layout that keeps a modeled radiation error more local.
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TETRIS-Q Tries to Box In a Quantum Chip's Radiation Errors

Original conceptual diagram of the simulated TETRIS-Q approach. Modeled substrate barriers divide neighboring qubits into zones, while code interleaving separates qubits that belong to the same error-correction block.

Used for: TETRIS-Q Tries to Box In a Quantum Chip's Radiation Errors
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Original QubitWire diagram. Source/method: Vallero et al., arXiv:2609.05226v1 (2026).
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Schematic cutaway showing a proposed quantum sensor above land and an underground aquifer, with labels explaining that more subsurface water adds mass and slightly changes gravity.
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Earth's Hidden Water Has Weight. NASA Wants a Quantum Sensor to Track It

Water and ice add mass to Earth. A changing underground reservoir can therefore slightly change the gravity field above it. NASA's proposed pathfinder would test the quantum-sensing technology from orbit; this QubitWire diagram is schematic, not mission imagery or measured data.

Used for: Earth's Hidden Water Has Weight. NASA Wants a Quantum Sensor to Track It
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Diagram: QubitWire. Original schematic based on NASA Earth Science Technology Office's April 13, 2026 QGGPf description.
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Three-step schematic showing ultracold rubidium atoms, laser pulses splitting their wave-like paths and recombination into an interference pattern shifted by gravity.
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Earth's Hidden Water Has Weight. NASA Wants a Quantum Sensor to Track It

In atom interferometry, laser pulses split and recombine the wave-like quantum states of ultracold atoms. Gravity changes the resulting interference pattern. Path separation is exaggerated here, and the pathfinder has not yet demonstrated individual-aquifer mapping or a science-grade spatial resolution.

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Diagram: QubitWire. Original mechanism schematic based on NASA ESTO and Infleqtion descriptions.
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IBM’s cryogenic prototype on display at CES 2018. This historic exhibit is not the 2022 Goldeneye fridge or the connected modules announced in 2026.
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IBM Q at CES (39660636671)

IBM’s cryogenic prototype on display at CES 2018. This historic exhibit is not the 2022 Goldeneye fridge or the connected modules announced in 2026.

Used for: That Gold Quantum Chandelier? It’s Actually a Very Serious Fridge
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“IBM Q at CES (39660636671)” — Lars Plougmann. CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Inside a dilution refrigerator at the London Centre for Nanotechnology. A separate example of the cooling infrastructure used in low-temperature quantum experiments.
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Dilution Refrigerator (39016294284)

Inside a dilution refrigerator at the London Centre for Nanotechnology. A separate example of the cooling infrastructure used in low-temperature quantum experiments.

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“Dilution Refrigerator (39016294284)” — Pavlos Apostolidis / UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences. CC BY 2.0.
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QuEra’s Aquila optical layout shows the laser apparatus behind a neutral-atom computer. This is context, not Caltech’s 6,100-atom experiment.
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QuEra Aquila Optical Layout

QuEra’s Aquila optical layout shows the laser apparatus behind a neutral-atom computer. This is context, not Caltech’s 6,100-atom experiment.

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“QuEra Aquila Optical Layout” — QuEra Computing, Inc.. CC BY 4.0.
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William Phillips with early neutral-atom trapping apparatus at NIST. Archival context for the development of atom control, not the modern Caltech array.
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AtomicPhysics004

William Phillips with early neutral-atom trapping apparatus at NIST. Archival context for the development of atom control, not the modern Caltech array.

Used for: Scientists Picked Up 6,100 Atoms With Light. Yes, Individually.
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“AtomicPhysics004” — National Institute of Standards and Technology Digital Collections, Gaithersburg, MD 20899.. U.S. Government work / Public domain in the United States.
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A green laser and beamsplitter used to control nitrogen-vacancy centers in Gavin Morley’s laboratory. This is not the Fraunhofer accelerator or QuTech prototype.
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Attocube beamsplitter GWMorley

A green laser and beamsplitter used to control nitrogen-vacancy centers in Gavin Morley’s laboratory. This is not the Fraunhofer accelerator or QuTech prototype.

Used for: This Diamond’s Flaw Is the Whole Point: It Can Hold a Qubit
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“Attocube beamsplitter GWMorley” — Gavin Morley. CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Fluorescence microscopy reveals a concentrated spot of nitrogen-vacancy centers in a diamond sample. The color scale records measured light emission; this is not a drawing or a photograph of either computer discussed here.
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Irradiated spot of diamond with high concentration of nitrogen-vacancy centers

Fluorescence microscopy reveals a concentrated spot of nitrogen-vacancy centers in a diamond sample. The color scale records measured light emission; this is not a drawing or a photograph of either computer discussed here.

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“Irradiated spot of diamond with high concentration of nitrogen-vacancy centers” — Lillian B. Hughes, Zhiran Zhang, Chang Jin, Simon A. Meynell, Bingtian Ye, Weijie Wu, Zilin Wang, Emily J. Davis, Thomas E. Mates, Norman Y. Yao, Kunal Mukherjee, Ania C. Bleszynski Jayich. CC BY 4.0.
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CURBy team members Jasper Palfree, Gautam Kavuri and Krister Shalm in the laboratory that produces publicly verifiable quantum random numbers. Context from a separate NIST/CU Boulder randomness project; this is not the Quantinuum H2-1 experiment.
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CURBy team members Palfree, Kavuri and Shalm

CURBy team members Jasper Palfree, Gautam Kavuri and Krister Shalm in the laboratory that produces publicly verifiable quantum random numbers. Context from a separate NIST/CU Boulder randomness project; this is not the Quantinuum H2-1 experiment.

Used for: A Quantum Computer Made Random Numbers. The Wild Part Was Checking Them.
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“CURBy team members Palfree, Kavuri and Shalm” — NIST. NIST public information reuse policy.
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NIST physicist Krister Shalm at an optical setup. The 2023 profile describes his research on entanglement, randomness and quantum networks. Context for optical quantum research; this is not the Quantinuum H2-1 experiment.
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NIST Quantum Physicist Krister Shalm

NIST physicist Krister Shalm at an optical setup. The 2023 profile describes his research on entanglement, randomness and quantum networks. Context for optical quantum research; this is not the Quantinuum H2-1 experiment.

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“NIST Quantum Physicist Krister Shalm” — R. Wilson / NIST. NIST public information reuse policy.
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A quantum chip photographed in the Martinis Group at UC Santa Barbara in 2010, containing a superconducting qubit coupled to a mechanical resonator. Historical superconducting-hardware context; it is not Google’s time-crystal experiment.
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QubitMechanicalResonator

A quantum chip photographed in the Martinis Group at UC Santa Barbara in 2010, containing a superconducting qubit coupled to a mechanical resonator. Historical superconducting-hardware context; it is not Google’s time-crystal experiment.

Used for: A Quantum Computer Made a Time Crystal. The Name Is Only Half the Fun.
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“QubitMechanicalResonator” — Erik Lucero, Martinis Group, University of California, Santa Barbara. CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Roughly 300 trapped beryllium ions form a spatial hexagonal crystal in a NIST experiment. This is an example of order in space, not the Google time crystal or its superconducting qubits.
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NIST Develops Powerful Method of Suppressing Errors in Many Types of Quantum Computers (5940501143)

Roughly 300 trapped beryllium ions form a spatial hexagonal crystal in a NIST experiment. This is an example of order in space, not the Google time crystal or its superconducting qubits.

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“NIST Develops Powerful Method of Suppressing Errors in Many Types of Quantum Computers (5940501143)” — National Institute of Standards and Technology. U.S. Government work / Public domain in the United States.
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Gold electrode patterns form an oval racetrack with six branches on a NIST ion-trap device.
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NIST Racetrack Ion Trap

NIST’s racetrack ion trap, described in March 2010. Its electrode pattern defines zones for storing, transporting and probing ions. This archive device is not Quantinuum’s H2 processor.

Used for: Some Quantum Computers Move Their Atoms to Do the Math
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“NIST Racetrack Ion Trap” — J. Amini / NIST. NIST public information, reusable under NIST’s published terms; also identified as a U.S. Government work in the Wikimedia Commons rights record.
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Annotated photograph of a segmented NIST ion trap with an X-shaped central junction and labels for loading and experimental zones.
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X-Junction ion trap

NIST’s annotated photograph of a multi-zone ion trap. The central X-shaped junction provides routes for reordering ions; the labels identify different working zones.

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“X-Junction ion trap” — NIST. Reproduced under NIST’s published public-information reuse terms. Original source annotations retained.
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Colorized micrograph showing two oval aluminum drum membranes connected to curved circuit structures on a blue background.
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Quantum drum duet

Colorized micrograph of the two mechanical drums featured in NIST’s 2021 entanglement experiment. Each aluminum membrane contains approximately a trillion atoms. Colors were added by the source.

Used for: These Tiny Drums Share a Quantum Beat
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“Quantum drum duet” — J. Teufel / NIST. Colorized micrograph reproduced under NIST’s published public-information reuse terms.
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John Teufel stands in a laboratory holding a metal chip holder used for micro-drum experiments.
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John Teufel with his Micro Drum

John Teufel holding a chip holder for micro-drum experiments in a July 2011 NIST photograph. This is an earlier archive image, not the two-drum apparatus reported in 2021.

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“John Teufel with his Micro Drum” — Burrus / NIST, July 6, 2011. Reproduced under NIST’s published public-information reuse terms.
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Rows of labeled wooden drawers in a library card catalogue.
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Card Catalog

A card catalogue photographed in February 2006 by Tulane Public Relations. It illustrates the idea of searching records; an ordered catalogue is not itself the unstructured search problem in Grover’s algorithm.

Used for: The Quantum Trick for Searching a Million Possibilities
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“Card Catalog” — Tulane Public Relations, February 9, 2006, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Original visible © Tulane University credit retained.
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IBM Quantum System Two is visible through large street-facing windows at Ikerbasque in Donostia-San Sebastián.
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Ikerbasque IBM Quantum System Two.jpg

IBM Quantum System Two at Ikerbasque, photographed through the building’s windows on December 10, 2025. Hardware context for quantum algorithms; the photograph does not document a Grover benchmark.

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“Ikerbasque IBM Quantum System Two.jpg” — Luistxo, December 10, 2025, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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NIST paired-photon source and microstructured optical fiber used in quantum communications research
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Mass Weddings. NIST’s New Efficient 2-Photon Source

A NIST paired-photon source with microstructured fiber, used as quantum-secure communications context.

Used for: IETF Publishes Hybrid ML-KEM Key Agreement for TLS 1.3
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“Mass Weddings. NIST’s New Efficient 2-Photon Source” by A. Migdall / NIST. Reused under NIST public-information policy.
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Pasqal vacuum chamber and optical core where neutral atoms are trapped and manipulated
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Pasqal vacuum chamber and optical core

Pasqal’s vacuum chamber and optical core, the closest company-supplied view of the neutral-atom hardware in the story.

Used for: Pasqal Reports Trapping Four Atoms With Chip-Delivered Light
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A D-Wave Two quantum computer installed at NASA Advanced Supercomputing
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D-Wave Two quantum computer inside the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Facility

D-Wave Two at NASA Advanced Supercomputing, used as broader optimization-hardware context. It was not the AWS–JPMorgan test platform.

Used for: AWS and JPMorganChase Study Smaller Inputs for Quantum Optimization
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“D-Wave Two quantum computer inside the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Facility” by Oleg Alexandrov, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Concept illustration of semiconductor wafer fabrication
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Semiconductor manufacturing concept

QubitWire concept illustration of semiconductor wafer fabrication. It does not depict SkyWater, IonQ, or a specific manufacturing facility.

Used for: IonQ Completes Acquisition of SkyWater Technology
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HRL integrated cryogenic QPU with controller motherboard, silicon-qubit daughterboard and ribbon cable
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A digitally controlled silicon quantum processing unit — Extended Data Fig. 1

The integrated QPU reported by HRL, including its cryogenic controller, silicon-qubit device and interconnect.

Used for: HRL Demonstrates Digital Cryogenic Control of a Silicon Quantum Chip
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Members of the HRL Quantum Team and Collaborators, “A digitally controlled silicon quantum processing unit,” Nature 655 (2026), Extended Data Fig. 1, CC BY 4.0.
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President Donald Trump with senior officials after signing quantum executive orders in the Oval Office on June 22, 2026
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President Donald J. Trump signs Executive Orders on quantum in the Oval Office

The June 22, 2026 Oval Office signing of the quantum executive orders covered in the article.

Used for: US Executive Order Sets Quantum Benchmarking and Partnership Tasks
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Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian.
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A real NIST planar ion-trap chip used for quantum-computing research
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Planar Ion Trap

A NIST planar ion trap, used as representative hardware context for Microsoft’s error-correction work on Quantinuum systems.

Used for: Microsoft and Quantinuum Report Lower Logical Circuit Errors
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“Planar Ion Trap” by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Reused under NIST public-information policy.
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The real gold-and-blue Microsoft Majorana 2 chip
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Microsoft Majorana 2 chip

Microsoft’s Majorana 2 device, the exact hardware discussed in the article.

Used for: Microsoft Reports a 20-Second Parity Timescale in a Tetron Device
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Rigetti founder Chad Rigetti speaking onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2018
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2018 — Chad Rigetti

Rigetti founder and former CEO Chad Rigetti in 2018, used as company context for the Rigetti–Riverlane work.

Used for: Riverlane and Rigetti Demonstrate Fast Live Error Decoding
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“TechCrunch Disrupt 2018 — Day 3 — 023” by Steve Jennings / Getty Images for TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0.
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