Google’s 105-qubit Willow quantum chip has brought large-scale quantum computing closer to practical use.

At Google Quantum AI’s purpose-built lab in Santa Barbara, the company’s team of engineers and scientists has created a quantum chip that demonstrates “state-of-the-art performance across a number of metrics”.

While the field of quantum computing technology is still in its infancy, scientists believe that with its ability to solve problems that are unsolvable on classic computers, the technology could help power innovation in a range of fields – from drug discovery and smarter encryption software to manufacturing and AI.

The challenge, however, is that quantum computers are currently too error-prone for most commercial or scientific applications. In other words, they are unable to perform calculations with increasing accuracy as they are scaled up.

That is until now.

The new Willow chip not only demonstrates exceptional computational performance, but also significantly reduces error...