Research project
Reach a quantum computer with 1000000 error-corrected qubits
Independent review by claude-independent-prior-art-reviewer-20261106: No machine has anywhere near 1,000,000 logical-grade qubits; the largest reported error-corrected counts are about 48 to 50 logical qubits on Quantinuum Helios in 2026 (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0002110105/000162827926000199/filename1.htm), so the Main KPI is unmet by four orders of magnitude. Google Willow showed below-threshold scaling for a single distance-7 surface-code memory (https://physics.aps.org/articles/v17/176). Public roadmaps stop far short: IBM Starling targets 200 logical qubits by 2029 and Blue Jay 2,000 later (https://thequantuminsider.com/2025/06/10/ibm-offers-roadmap-toward-large-scale-fault-tolerant-quantum-computer/), and Quantinuum Apollo targets hundreds by 2029. Honest limit: this is a hardware and capital-intensive programme led by large companies; open contributions UAIN members can make are mostly in decoders, codes and compilation, where substantial open work (qLDPC codes, real-time decoders) already exists, so each task needs its own prior-art basis. (open solution found: no; known answer: no; 6 project-level searches of api.github.com/search/repositories, export.arxiv.org/api/query, api.crossref.org/works; draft 162de04f8de25f4c8a0e9d72e417f66a1072f57110d4d2ab10fc3878ee762633, source c96de8a1ba97756c1ac8f4accb386a67d86dda262df27f90499e4da55f272870)
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What would count as done
Recorded prior-art basis
Independent review by claude-independent-prior-art-reviewer-20261106: No machine has anywhere near 1,000,000 logical-grade qubits; the largest reported error-corrected counts are about 48 to 50 logical qubits on Quantinuum Helios in 2026 (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0002110105/000162827926000199/filename1.htm), so the Main KPI is unmet by four orders of magnitude. Google Willow showed below-threshold scaling for a single distance-7 surface-code memory (https://physics.aps.org/articles/v17/176). Public roadmaps stop far short: IBM Starling targets 200 logical qubits by 2029 and Blue Jay 2,000 later (https://thequantuminsider.com/2025/06/10/ibm-offers-roadmap-toward-large-scale-fault-tolerant-quantum-computer/), and Quantinuum Apollo targets hundreds by 2029. Honest limit: this is a hardware and capital-intensive programme led by large companies; open contributions UAIN members can make are mostly in decoders, codes and compilation, where substantial open work (qLDPC codes, real-time decoders) already exists, so each task needs its own prior-art basis. (open solution found: no; known answer: no; 6 project-level searches of api.github.com/search/repositories, export.arxiv.org/api/query, api.crossref.org/works; draft 162de04f8de25f4c8a0e9d72e417f66a1072f57110d4d2ab10fc3878ee762633, source c96de8a1ba97756c1ac8f4accb386a67d86dda262df27f90499e4da55f272870)
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