{"id":4962,"date":"2025-07-19T04:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T04:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/4962\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T04:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T04:38:12","slug":"denmark-aims-to-host-worlds-most-powerful-quantum-computer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/4962\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark aims to host world\u2019s most powerful quantum computer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">By Supantha Mukherjee and Stine Jacobsen<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">STOCKHOLM\/COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -The Novo Nordisk Foundation and Denmark&#8217;s state-owned credit fund said on Thursday they will invest in what they say will be the world&#8217;s most powerful quantum computer, aiming to revolutionize areas such as drug discovery and materials science.Quantum computing holds the promise of carrying out calculations that would take today&#8217;s systems millions of years and could unlock discoveries in medicine, chemistry and many other fields where near-infinite seas of possible combinations of molecules confound classical computers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The Novo Nordisk Foundation, the non-profit which controls pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk, and Denmark&#8217;s Export and Investment Fund (EIFO), said in a statement they would invest 80 million euros ($92.93 million) in the initiative called QuNorth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/microsoft\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Microsoft;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft<\/a>, which has its largest quantum lab in Denmark, will provide software and Atom Computing will build the quantum computer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The computer will be named Magne, inspired by Norse mythology where Magne, the son of Thor, is known for his immense strength.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Construction will begin in autumn and the computer is expected to be ready by the end of next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The quantum computer will start operating with 50 logical qubits, Jason Zander, Microsoft&#8217;s executive vice president, told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">A qubit, short for quantum bit, is the basic unit of information in a quantum computer and a logical qubit is a virtual qubit built from many physical qubits to reliably process quantum information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Last November, Microsoft and Atom created 24 logical qubits, the highest number ever created.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">&#8220;When we get to about 50 logical qubits, that&#8217;s when we start hitting true quantum advantage,&#8221; Zander said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">&#8220;I get to the point where I can run something on a quantum computer that I could not run on a classic computer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">&#8220;When the machine gets up to 100 (logical qubits), we can start doing science problems, get up to a couple 100s, we can start doing some chemistry and starting to answer things, and then when all the way up to 1,000, now you are solving everything,&#8221; Zander said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">($1 = 0.8606 euros)<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Supantha Mukherjee in Stockholm and Stine Jacobsen in CopenhagenEditing by Frances Kerry)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Supantha Mukherjee and Stine Jacobsen STOCKHOLM\/COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -The Novo Nordisk Foundation and Denmark&#8217;s state-owned credit fund said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[64,63,6695,6693,6694,6691,292,6692,128],"class_list":["post-4962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-physics","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-classic-computer","tag-denmark","tag-jason-zander","tag-novo-nordisk-foundation","tag-physics","tag-quantum-computer","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}