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D-Wave Demonstrates Two-Qubit Gate Breakthrough for Dual-Rail Erasure Qubits in Nature

Published

6 August 2026

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opportunities

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Quantum Computing

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United States

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Fusion42 · 30 August 2026 · Fusion42 review

D-Wave Quantum has demonstrated a high-fidelity, fast two-qubit entangling gate for superconducting dual-rail cavity qubits, achieving 99.9% physical fidelity with strong noise bias and introducing hardware-level erasure error tracking, marking a foundational milestone toward scalable fault-tolerant quantum computing.

This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Quantum Computing, and 2 sources have reported it between 6 Aug 2026 and 7 Aug 2026.

◆ ◆ The Wire takeaway

D-Wave’s hardware error-tracking breakthrough cuts the qubit count you need for fault tolerance sharply. Quantum computing founders now face a clearer path to practical, scalable error-corrected machines.

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2 sources · first reported 6 Aug 2026 · latest 7 Aug 2026

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