World’s first scalable, connected, photonic quantum computer prototype developed

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>A team of engineers, physicists and computer specialists at Canadian company, Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc., has unveiled what they describe as the world’s first scalable, connected, photonic quantum computer prototype.

>In their paper [published](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08406-9) in the journal *Nature*, the group describes how they designed and built their modularized quantum computer, and how it can be easily scaled to virtually any desired size.

>As scientists around the world continue to work toward the development of a truly useful quantum computer, makers of such machines continue to come up with design ideas. In this new effort, the research team built a quantum computer based on a [modular design](https://phys.org/tags/modular+design/). Their idea was to build a single basic box using just a few qubits for the simplest of applications. As the need arises, another box can be added, then another and another—with all the boxes working together like a network, as a single computer.