In February 2026, an official demonstration was held of a prototype Russian 16-qubit universal scalable superconducting quantum computer based on fluxonium qubit architecture, reports "Nauchnaya Rossiya". The development was carried out at the National University of Science and Technology MISIS (NITU MISIS), with the state corporation "Rosatom" serving as curator.
Back in December 2025, the prototype took part in validation experiments. Specialists recorded the average accuracy of two-qubit quantum operations at 99.4%, and simultaneous single-qubit operations at 99.8%.
The 16-qubit quantum computer based on fluxoniums is intended to solve problems that even the most powerful classical supercomputers cannot handle. Thanks to the high accuracy of operations (more than 99%) and the long quantum information storage time (more than 1 ms), it is capable of modeling the behavior of complex molecules for the creation of new medicines and materials, calculating optimal logistics routes with millions of variables, and solving optimization problems for industry and the financial sector. In effect, this is a new-generation computing system that opens the way to breakthroughs in science, engineering, and technology where classical computers would require millennia of continuous operation.
The NITU MISIS development is among the largest fluxonium-based computing systems in the world.
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