Start the interactive view when you are ready. The page scrolls normally until then.
One minute to connect the big ideas.
Easy orbit turns around the machine with controlled tilt. Choose free inspection for unrestricted angles. Home view always brings you back.
View controls need a ready 3D scene. The component guide and sources remain available.
Home view restores a known view in the current scale. Frame part moves to the selected component. Back to view reverses a camera move. None of these reassembles the model.
After Start exploring, focus the model: arrow keys rotate, Shift + arrow keys pan, + and − zoom, Home restores the view, F frames the selected part and B returns to the previous view. Escape stops interacting. Shortcuts apply only to the model canvas.
Opened for nonoperating inspection. Choose Explore to enable gestures, select a part or restore the assembly.
Optional text explanations of architecture, measurement records and the complete workflow. This representative exhibit supplies no live hardware results.
This exhibit follows one representative superconducting installation. A photonic processor instead uses optical paths and measurements; trapped ions use controlled charged atoms. Shared words such as control and readout do not make their physical layouts interchangeable.
Compare the functions: what stores information, what performs an operation, what isolates it, and how does a measurement become a record? A photonic approach can still require cold detectors. The refrigerator here is not a physical model of every architecture.
A question to carry forward: Which part of the other system does the same job, and which engineering requirements differ?
Keep the detector’s boundary in view →A measurement needs a receipt: the task, executed procedure, relevant conditions, data selection and analysis version. A screenshot can omit the information that makes a result reproducible.
For a local teaching sample, include the model and sampler versions, input probability, shot count and seed. That is a deterministic software recipe, not evidence of quantum-hardware access. A versioned record lets another reader distinguish replaying the calculation from repeating a physical experiment.
A question to carry forward: Could another person identify the exact inputs and method without guessing from the picture?
Follow the experiment’s replay →The signal’s return journey matters: readout becomes a classical record, then an analysis turns that record into an answer. Input preparation, communication and repeated measurements can sit outside a fast circuit while still belonging to the job.
Quobly and SiPearl’s October 9 announcement describes a non-exclusive agreement to explore CPU–QPU integration. It does not report a completed joint machine or an application speedup. The ordered text here supplies system context without adding a tour stop or claiming an exact vendor interface.
A question to carry forward: Where does the timing start and stop, and what useful answer does the user receive?
Try a disclosed workflow calculation →You do not need a physics background. Start with what each part does, then follow your curiosity into the details.
In a small circuit on the chip. A qubit stores quantum information in two basis states, labelled 0 and 1. Its state can be a superposition of them; measurement in that basis gives one outcome.
The package supports the chip and connects it to the surrounding machine. A promising chip and a dependable complete system are different engineering achievements.
Keep this ideaThe chip carries the quantum circuit. Its interfaces help make that circuit usable.
The chip is one small part. Packaging, connections, cooling and measurement equipment help determine how it can be used and tested. Open the assembly to inspect those relationships: component count is not a measure of computing power.
That shortcut is misleading. Quantum states can interfere, and measurement has specific outcomes. Useful algorithms must arrange those effects carefully; superposition alone is not an automatic speedup.
They prepare instructions, coordinate calibration and process measurement data. A useful workflow accounts for this classical work as well as the quantum operation.
No. The 20 mK label, dimensions and 25-site chip are authored examples. Other parts operate at different nominal temperatures. A cold-stage label is neither a complete noise model nor evidence of computing performance.
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Model scope: original representative geometry and authored reference values.
A physical qubit is a device-level system. A logical qubit is information encoded and protected through a chosen scheme. The physical resources needed depend on the code, noise and required reliability. Suppression reduces errors; mitigation estimates results despite errors; correction detects and manages errors in encoded information. These are different methods. The objects shown here do not demonstrate a logical-qubit result.
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No. This exhibit represents a superconducting system. Neutral atoms, trapped ions and photons use different physical systems and engineering arrangements. Keep four questions fixed when comparing them: what stores information, how are operations controlled, how is the result read, and what evidence supports the capability?
This exhibit represents one superconducting design. Other quantum-computing approaches use different hardware. The opened assembly is for education, with nominal values and no live measurements. Keep the same questions when comparing different machines.
Component counts describe modeled hardware, not qubits. 48 component families. 3,751 mechanical parts and 192 wire bonds with stable identities. Conceptual circuit features are separate. The catalogue and sources work without 3D.
Search names, materials, roles, nominal stages and declared channels. Try copper, chip or coldest stage.
48 families · 3,943 components. Choose a family to browse every instance.
Groups organise the catalogue. They are not a complete physical attachment tree.
The visible cold assembly needs mechanical support, service access and connections to room-temperature equipment. The frame is infrastructure around the processor, not the processor itself.
1 instance · room · 1.46 m × 1.17 m × 3.085 m; original representative frame (illustrative).
Opening the display enclosure or changing the frame illustrates mechanical access, not a change to a quantum state.
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Leveling hardware stabilizes an installation. It belongs to the mechanical environment rather than the quantum circuit.
4 instances · room · 75 mm foot diameter; 120 mm nominal height (illustrative).
A simulated removal does not mean a heavy cryostat could safely stand with a missing foot.
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Mechanical disturbances can couple into an experimental setup. Isolation hardware is part of managing the environment, but its effectiveness depends on the actual assembly and frequency range.
8 instances · room · 60 x 60 x 85 mm representative mount (illustrative).
Vibration attenuation, natural frequency and any effect on coherence time require design-specific measurements; this model provides none.
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The top region separates room-temperature service connections from the cryogenic assembly. Feedthroughs and support interfaces make it more than a decorative cap.
1 instance · room · 720 mm diameter; 24 mm thick (illustrative).
Room-temperature service hardware is not itself cooled to the chip temperature.
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The outer vessel creates the vacuum environment around the cold assembly. Removing gas reduces a route for heat transfer; vacuum alone does not make the processor cold.
1 instance · room · 680 mm outside diameter; 1.35 m body height (illustrative).
An open cryostat cannot remain an ordinary operating vacuum system. The open scene is an educational inspection state, not a live operational condition.
Outer-vessel placement changes in an educational cut; it does not demonstrate a physical removal path.
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A vacuum boundary depends on its joints as well as its walls. The seal is a separate component with a different role from the vessel flange.
2 instances · room · Nominal 620 mm ring diameter; schematic section (illustrative).
This is not a guide to selecting, lubricating or installing seals on real cryogenic equipment.
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Vacuum service connections provide access to the vessel environment. A valve in the vacuum circuit is not automatically part of the helium-mixture circulation circuit.
3 instances · room · 40 mm bore; 160 mm representative assembly length (illustrative).
Vacuum evacuation and helium-mixture circulation are distinct circuits with different roles.
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A pressure measurement describes a particular location and sensor range. The website has no live telemetry from a physical cryostat.
2 instances · room · 55 mm sensing body; 70 mm connector neck (illustrative).
A vacuum gauge monitors pressure, not temperature. This exhibit supplies no precise pressure reading or pressure simulation.
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The mechanical refrigerator supports precooling stages. Reaching the lowest dilution-refrigerator temperatures requires more than the pulse-tube cold head alone.
2 instances · 50K / 4K · 100 mm head diameter; 650 mm representative length (illustrative).
The pulse tube supports earlier cooling stages; it does not directly refrigerate the chip to the representative 20 mK stage.
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A thermal link conducts heat between connected hardware. Its mechanical flexibility and its thermal role are different from the function of an electrical signal cable.
16 instances · stage-specific · 20 mm width; 120-260 mm representative length (illustrative).
Texture strands and geometry segments are visual detail, not additional detachable components.
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Thermal stages intercept heat before it reaches colder hardware. A stage name is a useful reference point, not proof that every nearby object has exactly that temperature.
1 instance · 50K · 600 mm diameter; 18 mm thick (illustrative).
A gold-colored finish does not establish pure gold construction. Its appearance provides no measured thermal conductivity.
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A radiation shield limits radiative heat exchange between warmer surroundings and colder stages. It is not simply another vacuum vessel.
1 instance · 50K · 610 mm diameter; 1.05 m height (illustrative).
Thermal shielding and magnetic shielding have different roles. The shield layers need not share one material.
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The 4 K region is a major thermal and signal-chain interface. Components anchored here can include readout amplification hardware in a representative superconducting setup.
1 instance · 4K · 510 mm diameter; 18 mm thick (illustrative).
Amplifiers can operate at different stages. In this representative design, the TWPA belongs to the base-stage readout assembly.
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Nested shields surround progressively colder regions and reduce radiative heat reaching them. The refrigerator provides the cooling; the shields help limit the heat it must remove.
1 instance · 4K · 520 mm diameter; 860 mm height (illustrative).
The 4 K shield is not the installation's sole vacuum boundary; the outer can is the declared vacuum vessel.
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The still is part of the dilution circulation process. Its function differs from the final mixing chamber even though both belong to the same cooling system.
1 instance · 0.8K nominal · 420 mm plate diameter; conceptual still body (illustrative).
The representative 0.8 K label is not a live temperature or a universal still operating value.
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An intermediate stage helps organize thermalization between the still and the coldest region. Naming conventions and operating values vary across systems.
1 instance · 0.1K nominal · 360 mm plate diameter; 16 mm thick (illustrative).
A vertical position in the visual layout does not by itself determine a temperature; stage metadata is the authority.
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The mixing chamber supplies the lowest-temperature environment in this representative dilution refrigerator. It is not the qubit chip, which sits in a package attached to cold hardware.
1 instance · 20mK nominal · 300 mm plate diameter; representative mixing vessel (illustrative).
The nominal 20 mK is a design illustration, not a promise of the lowest temperature ever reached or a value measured by the website.
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Heat exchange in the circulation system supports the dilution process. An exterior model cannot establish the exact internal construction of a manufacturer's unit.
1 instance · between circulation stages · 240 mm illustrative module envelope (illustrative).
Heat-exchanger texture ridges and idealized internal surfaces are illustrative detail, not extra parts in the component count.
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Helium-mixture circulation moves refrigerant through the cooling system. It is a separate network from microwave signal wiring and the equipment that evacuates the vacuum vessel.
24 instances · network-specific · 8-16 mm illustrative outside diameters (illustrative).
Helium-mixture circulation and coaxial signal paths remain separate networks even when both appear as metallic tubes.
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The cold assembly relies on supporting room-temperature circulation infrastructure. A simplified manifold view can explain that dependency without becoming an operating manual.
8 instances · room · 180 x 120 x 90 mm representative module (illustrative).
This representative gas-handling assembly provides no operating pressure settings, valve sequence or control of a real dilution refrigerator.
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Magnetic shielding helps reduce magnetic disturbances near the circuit. Thermal radiation shields instead limit radiative heat exchange, even when both look like nested metal layers.
2 instances · base region · 180 / 210 mm representative sleeve diameters (illustrative).
The shield does not establish complete protection from noise, radiation or decoherence.
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Support posts hold the temperature stages while forming paths through which heat can flow. Their material and dimensions balance structural support against unwanted heat transfer.
24 instances · between stages · 6-12 mm diameter; 80-220 mm span (illustrative).
A support's gold-colored appearance does not establish copper construction; actual materials depend on the engineering design.
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Temperature readings come from sensors mounted at specific places. A stage sensor does not automatically report the exact temperature of every chip feature.
8 instances · assigned stage · 10 x 8 x 4 mm illustrative sensing head (illustrative).
Camera distance, plate color and animation progress do not measure chip temperature.
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Controlled heating can be used when characterizing or regulating a cryogenic stage. A heater is not a refrigeration source.
6 instances · assigned stage · 25 x 8 mm representative body (illustrative).
Removing a heater does not make the stage instantly reach absolute zero. This exhibit does not simulate that thermal response.
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Feedthroughs bring connections across a boundary while maintaining the intended physical interface. Channel identity matters more than the visual density of connectors.
8 instances · room boundary · 70 x 40 x 25 mm representative cartridge (illustrative).
An unused service position is not an active qubit. Reserved channels are identified separately in the declared route graph.
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Room-temperature electronics connect to the cryostat through radio-frequency (RF) signal lines. Following each line shows its role in control, readout or amplifier pumping; reserved routes are identified separately.
64 instances · room · 3-5 mm diameter; authored room-scale routes (illustrative).
The RF cable carries control or readout signals, not a literal qubit traveling through the line.
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Cryogenic signal wiring crosses temperature stages and must manage heat as well as the intended signal. The segmented view exposes the anchors and conditioning components along that route.
320 instances · five thermal intervals · Nominal 2.2 mm outer diameter; stage-specific lengths (illustrative).
A cable-segment count is not a qubit count. The lines need not all use the same material.
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RF connector fittings join sections of a signal path. Each fitting belongs to a particular route and provides an interface between the connected components.
768 instances · route-specific · 6-12 mm representative fitting envelope (illustrative).
RF interfaces can use different connector standards. The drawn fit is representative, not a manufacturing specification.
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A cable anchor can connect wiring mechanically and thermally to a stage. A visible contact region helps explain a function that a thin line alone cannot show.
320 instances · assigned stage · 18 x 10 x 7 mm representative body (illustrative).
A cable conductor does not instantly reach the stage temperature; proximity alone does not establish thermalization.
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Attenuation reduces signal power and can help manage noise from warmer portions of the input chain. Its location in the thermal system matters.
90 instances · 4K / 0.1K / 20mK · 25 x 8 x 8 mm representative module (illustrative).
An attenuator does not purify quantum information, and more attenuation is not universally better without considering signal and heat budgets.
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Filtering unwanted high-frequency radiation is part of protecting a sensitive experimental environment. The filter is not interchangeable with a radiation shield or attenuator.
30 instances · base-region input lines · 30 x 10 x 10 mm representative body (illustrative).
No component-specific stopband curve or attenuation rating is established for this representative filter.
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A microwave low-pass filter passes lower-frequency signal content while attenuating higher-frequency content. Its useful passband must suit the intended input signal; other noise sources still need separate control.
30 instances · input conditioning region · 32 x 10 x 8 mm representative body (illustrative).
The declared signal route needs its intended drive frequency to pass; this model supplies no measured filter response.
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A microwave circulator routes signals between ports in a defined sequence. An isolator favors transmission in one direction. These components help separate parts of the readout chain, with losses and imperfect isolation in real devices.
15 instances · base readout assembly · 38 x 30 x 16 mm representative module (illustrative).
The module does not establish perfect isolation or zero insertion loss. Placement varies among quantum-computer designs.
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A parametric amplifier can strengthen weak readout signals using an additional pump. Its role is not to copy an unknown quantum state or to amplify the qubit itself.
5 instances · base region · 70 x 30 x 12 mm representative enclosure (illustrative).
This representative module has no established quantum-limited performance. Amplification does not create a noiseless copy of a quantum signal.
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A high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) amplifier strengthens a weak readout signal at a cryogenic stage. It forms part of the amplification chain and adds noise of its own.
5 instances · 4K · 60 x 25 x 18 mm representative enclosure (illustrative).
The HEMT belongs to the declared warmer readout stage in this design, rather than the mixing chamber.
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Low-frequency service wiring supplies functions such as temperature sensing, heaters and amplifier power. Those connections have different jobs from the microwave control and readout lines.
8 instances · stage-specific · 0.15-0.4 mm wire examples; grouped loom geometry (illustrative).
DC heater wiring and microwave readout lines serve different signal roles.
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Room-temperature racks house classical control and measurement equipment. Together with the cold assembly and processor package, they form the complete experimental installation.
2 instances · room · 600 x 800 x 1800 mm representative rack (illustrative).
More rack units do not establish more qubits, greater quantum volume or more useful computing power.
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Digital-to-analog converters (DACs) turn digital waveform samples into analog control signals. A rendered pulse envelope here is a teaching aid, not a calibrated waveform reaching a physical qubit.
8 instances · room · 430 x 330 x 44 mm representative module (illustrative).
Arbitrary-waveform hardware generates control waveforms, not a completed quantum algorithm or a literal qubit.
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Local oscillators supply frequency references for preparing microwave signals. Timing references help coordinate control and measurement; the exhibit illustrates those roles without connecting to laboratory clocks.
4 instances · room · 430 x 280 x 44 mm representative module (illustrative).
The website animation does not synchronize a physical quantum computer.
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An in-phase/quadrature (IQ) mixer combines control waveforms with a local-oscillator signal to prepare microwave pulses. Frequency translation serves a different role from amplification.
35 instances · room · 60 x 45 x 18 mm representative module (illustrative).
Frequency mixing is distinct from quantum superposition and entanglement.
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A digitizer converts the returned analog signal into digital data. A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) can process those records in the readout electronics; the result is a classical measurement record.
5 instances · room · 430 x 320 x 44 mm representative module (illustrative).
A single measurement does not reveal all amplitudes or all possible answers of a quantum computation.
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The package supports the chip and shapes its local electromagnetic environment. Its design matters even though it is much larger than the circuit features.
1 instance · 20mK nominal · 52 x 52 x 14 mm representative body (illustrative).
Coherence times, crosstalk values and mode frequencies from cited papers are not measurements of this original representative geometry.
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The package lid belongs to the immediate environment around the chip. Opening it for inspection is an explanatory action, not an operating configuration.
1 instance · 20mK nominal · 52 x 52 x 3 mm representative lid (illustrative).
An opened lid in air does not preserve a real chip's ordinary operating conditions. This is a nonoperating educational view.
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The carrier connects a small chip to larger interfaces. Its material, grounding and geometry are part of the package design, not merely a decorative circuit board.
1 instance · 20mK nominal · 42 x 42 x 1.2 mm representative carrier (illustrative).
The illustrated substrate material and layer stack are representative, not manufacturer-confirmed specifications.
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The qubits are circuit structures on the chip, not the whole chandelier. This reference uses 25 fixed-frequency transmon sites to make a coherent educational layout.
1 instance · 20mK nominal · 12 x 12 x 0.5 mm representative die (illustrative).
This original layout has not been fabricated, calibrated or simulated as a full 25-qubit processor. Other quantum computers can use approaches beyond transmons.
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Fine bonds connect parts of the chip package. Their geometry can matter, but pulling them away in the viewer is a conceptual separation, not a nondestructive real-world operation.
192 instances · 20mK nominal · 20-30 micrometer illustrative wire diameter; 0.3-2 mm span (illustrative).
Not every bond carries a separate qubit channel. Removing or replacing wire bonds can have consequences on real hardware.
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Screws and bolts hold mechanical joints together. Each counted fastener in this exhibit has a distinct identity, position and attachment, so a repeated visual detail is not an extra component.
1270 instances · mount-specific · Representative M2-M8 visual families; not a fastener specification (illustrative).
Fastener quantity does not establish scientific fidelity or a world record.
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A washer is a separate mechanical interface, not a texture around a screw. This reference includes two at each of the 320 thermal clamps for clear, consistent assembly accounting.
640 instances · clamp-specific · Representative 2-4 mm bore; 0.5-1 mm thickness (illustrative).
Each washer has one component identity; a combined screw depiction does not add a second washer to the count.
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