Amazon’s Interest and External Validation
The potential of these ‘cat state’ qubits has garnered significant attention, even from industry behemoth Amazon, which has embarked on its own ‘cat state’ qubit research. While the startup initially felt the pressure of competing with Amazon, they recognized it as external validation.
Alice & Bob’s ‘cat states’ exhibit remarkable resistance to bit flips, where a qubit’s state flips from 1 to 0 or vice versa. Although they are somewhat more susceptible to phase flips, in which qubits shift between opposing phases, the researchers have emphasized that resolving one type of error is more manageable than dealing with both.
