Microsoft team led by UC Santa Barbara physicists unveils first-of-its-kind topological qubit
The chip, built as a proof-of-concept for the scientists’ design, opens the door to the development of the long-awaited topological quantum computer.
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Google’s breakthrough quantum chip has Central Coast ties
Largely overlooked was the fact that Willow was designed and built at Google’s quantum foundry, located near the UC Santa Barbara campus off Hollister Avenue.
Go inside the Google Quantum AI lab to learn about how quantum computing works
We’re taking you inside our Santa Barbara lab and demystifying six essential quantum computing terms.
Quantum Computing Inches Closer to Reality After Another Google Breakthrough
Google unveiled an experimental machine capable of tasks that a traditional supercomputer could not master in 10 septillion years. (That’s older than the universe.)
AlloSphere Series Illustrates Human Impacts to Climate, Ocean Health
The AlloSphere sits inside Elings Hall at UCSB and is a three-story metal sphere in an echo-free chamber. It’s a large digital microscope connected to […]
SLO-based iFixit helped make it easier for McDonald’s to fix its McFlurry machines
iFixit petitioned the Copyright Office for an exception that would allow owners of commercial and industrial equipment to do repairs, rather than having to rely […]
SLO’s Zone 5 Technologies featured in industry magazine
Walking into Zone 5 Technologies’ headquarters in San Luis Obispo, instantly you are blown away by what you see. Their 20,000sq.ft. building near the SLO […]
Santa Barbara company gets CHIPS Act funding
Santa Barbara-based Photothermal Spectroscopy Corporation was one of 17 small businesses across nine states to receive grant funding to explore research projects for developing a viable […]
