{"id":275549,"date":"2025-11-21T14:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/275549\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T14:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:29:10","slug":"you-can-see-a-working-quantum-computer-in-ibms-london-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/275549\/","title":{"rendered":"You can see a working Quantum Computer in IBM\u2019s London office"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you don\u2019t mind peering through a sheet of glass, you can see a Quantum Computer at IBM\u2019s office in Waterloo.<\/p>\n

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Known as the IBM Quantum System One, it is the first circuit-based commercial quantum computer, launched<\/a> by IBM in January 2019.<\/p>\n

Quantum computers are capable of using the weird world of quantum physics and simplistically, where a standard computer bit can be either a binary One or Zero, a quantum computer can be both at the same time. Thanks to that, it is widely believed that a quantum computer could perform some calculations exponentially faster than any classical computer.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not likely to be something you\u2019ll ever have at home, but they could replace massive supercomputers in handling huge calculations.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re also incredibly difficult to build, usually needing to be cooled to super low temperatures to prevent the real world from meddling with the quantum one. This gives them a bit of a steampunk appearance, and you can take a look at one at the moment in Waterloo.<\/p>\n

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The computer is live and in use<\/a> by companies, so cryogenic cooling keeps the system temperature as close to absolute zero as possible to conserve that precious quantum state.<\/p>\n

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You can only look at it from the outside, and if you go inside the office, you will be politely but firmly shoo\u2019d back out again. But while standing outside and peering through the office window, you can see the future of supercomputing and working today.<\/p>\n

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The IBM office is on York Road, a couple of blocks along from Waterloo Station\u2019s tube station entrance.<\/p>\n

The quantum computer on display was created in collaboration with London-based studios Map Project Office and Universal Design Studio, and Goppion, a Milan-based manufacturer of high-end museum display cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you don\u2019t mind peering through a sheet of glass, you can see a Quantum Computer at IBM\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[2302,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-275549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-physics","8":"tag-physics","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}