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Japan switches on its first full-stack room-temperature quantum computer — and scientists plan to scale it up to 10,000 qubits


Japan's new quantum system, Shunkai, uses "optical tweezers" to trap and rearrange atoms, and will be available to researchers working on quantum error correction.

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