It occurred to me this afternoon that I had no idea what a quantum computer physically looked like.
So I Google it, and found this photo from an Engadget article earlier this year, showing the innards of an IBM 50 qubit quantum computer:
Cool.
Actually, it does literally need to be very cool - but the article does a very poor job of explaining how exactly it is cooled down to liquid helium temperatures. Does the whole thing sit in a liquid helium bath?
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