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Are entangled qubits following a quantum Moore's law?

Several recent experiments showcase a sharp increase in the number of quantum bits that can be entangled, echoing Moore’s law for increasing computing power on traditional chips

By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

15 May 2025

Jiuzhang, an advanced photonic quantum computer like the one that entangled a record amount of qubits

University of Science and Technology of China

The number of qubits that have been entangled in quantum computers has nearly doubled within the past year – the increase is happening so fast, it seems to be following a “quantum Moore’s law”.

First proposed by Gordon Moore at Intel in 1965, Moore’s law states that the power we can get out of a single traditional computer chip doubles at regular intervals; every year at first, then every two years as manufacturing encountered…

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