Chalmers Researchers Make Bosonic Quantum Operations More Than 1,000 Times Faster
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Bosonic quantum operations running 1,000x faster directly attack decoherence windows—the main blocker to useful quantum workloads. Anyone with long-horizon bets in optimization, chemistry, or cryptography should treat this as another nudge to refresh their 'post-quantum' risk timelines annually, not every five years.
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