How to Use qubit in a Sentence
qubit
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One among them is the lifetime of the qubit itself.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
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The group now aims to entangle the qubits.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2025
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Each qubit had a specific role.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 13 Dec. 2025
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This was the grandfather of qubits.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 8 Oct. 2025
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On their own, those qubits emit weak RF signals.
—IEEE Spectrum, 22 Jan. 2021
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This gives you a quantum bit, or qubit, which can be a 0 or 1 at the same time.
—Dan Hurley, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2020
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Optical tweezers can trap the atoms, which act as qubits, and hold them or move them around.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 June 2026
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The time that a qubit retains its quantum state is called its coherence time.
—Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
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These can be measured to infer the state of each qubit that's part of the logical qubit.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 22 Feb. 2023
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The 20 qubit machine will be installed in the third quarter of this year.
—Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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Despite that, the company laid out a roadmap based on building qubits out of pairs of these nanowires.
—ArsTechnica, 3 June 2026
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What’s more, molecular qubits can have very long coherence times.
—Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
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And a qubit without spin can maintain its quantum state for a longer period of time.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 June 2024
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In the case of qubits, they can be correlated in a similar way.
—Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
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The researchers used 77 qubits (quantum bits), a new record, during the process.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2025
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Google increased the number of qubits from 53 to 105 in six years.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Dec. 2025
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The company’s aim is to create a machine built of a million qubits.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2025
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Then, the company will work to scale up the number of qubits that are linked together.
—Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 22 June 2023
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The smallest unit of a quantum computer is called the quantum bit, or qubit.
—Discover Magazine, 21 June 2024
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Their information storage units are not referred to as qubits alone but as cat qubits.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 21 Jan. 2026
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What is more straightforward are the modes of conveyance of qubits from one place to another.
—Lucas Laursen, IEEE Spectrum, 6 Jan. 2025
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The team were then able to measure the effect of the tardigrade on the qubit’s properties.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2021
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The Hamiltonian describes how the qubits change from one moment to the next.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
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Some academics believe the threat window may decrease more due to rapid qubit scaling.
—Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
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Quantum devices use qubits that can exist in multiple states at once.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 2 Mar. 2026
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The latter are errors where information stored on qubits is lost and not much can be done about them.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 9 June 2026
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However, their progress has been stunted due to the fragile nature of qubits.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2025
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All this depends on the strength and tunability of lasers, which suspend the atoms that make up qubits.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 12 May 2026
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In such a machine, these qubits are entangled with one another.
—Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Apr. 2026
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That matters because the race to useful quantum computing will not be won by qubit count alone.
—Karl Freund, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
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