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Three Quantum Platforms Took the Same Capability Test
QUOPS combined the largest successful relevant circuit with execution speed and found a five-order-of-magnitude gap to selected utility workloads.
Summary
QUOPS combined the largest successful relevant circuit with execution speed and found a five-order-of-magnitude gap to selected utility workloads.
Quantum processors are hard to compare when hardware technologies, logical architectures and favored benchmarks differ. The Quantum Universal Operation Performance System measures the size of the largest computationally relevant circuit a machine executes successfully and the speed of that execution. The team applied QUOPS directly to physical processors from Quantinuum, Google and IBM, then translated resource estimates for recognized challenge problems into the same units. Under those mappings, capability must grow by five orders of magnitude. The study also tested a simple fault-tolerant processor with up to eight encoded logical qubits on Quantinuum Helios-1. QUOPS is a proposed comparative benchmark, not a declaration of present utility.
Why it matters
QUOPS combined the largest successful relevant circuit with execution speed and found a five-order-of-magnitude gap to selected utility workloads.
Limits and context
- QUOPS is a proposed comparative benchmark, not a declaration of present utility.
Key claims
QUOPS combined the largest successful relevant circuit with execution speed and found a five-order-of-magnitude gap to selected utility workloads.
Qualification: QUOPS is a proposed comparative benchmark, not a declaration of present utility.
Evidence: source-2026-09-14-013
Sources
- arXiv preprint 2609.12146arXiv · primary research
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