IEEE Spectrum  February 19, 2021 Researchers at Sandia National Laboratory are working on a project to run code provided by academic, commercial, and independent researchers around the world on their “QSCOUT” ( Quantum Scientific Computing Open User Testbed) platform as they steadily upgrade it from 3 qubits today to as many as 32 qubits by 2023. QSCOUT consists of ionized ytterbium atoms levitating inside a vacuum chamber. Flashes of ultraviolet laser light spin these atoms about, executing algorithms written in the team’s quantum assembly code JAQAL (Just Another Quantum Assembly Language). JACQAL includes commands to initialize the ions as qubits, […]