Qubit Modality Guide
Five Technologies. One Race.
Every major qubit approach compared. Where Colorado sits in the global quantum computing landscape.
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Modality
Qubit Record / Fidelity
Coherence
Commercial
Scaling
Colorado
5
Qubit modalities in the race
2
Modalities with CO leaders
99.9%+
Best gate fidelity (Quantinuum)
Why Colorado chose neutral atoms and trapped ions
Both approaches benefit from decades of atomic physics research at NIST and JILA in Boulder. Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman (Nobel 2001, Bose-Einstein condensate) and David Wineland (Nobel 2012, trapped ions) built the foundational knowledge base that made Atom Computing, Infleqtion, and Quantinuum possible. The commercial ecosystem grew from the academic roots, not from venture capital importing external technology.
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