qumode

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noun

An information-carrying unit of a harmonic oscillator.

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Meanings

nounqumode (plural qumodes)

plural qumodes

  1. quantum computingAn information-carrying unit of a harmonic oscillator.

    Currently, Google has 72-qubit computers and about 20 qubits are available in the cloud. For qumodes, there are only 8 qumodes which are owned by Xanadu Inc at the time of writing.

    2021, Mukesh Saraswat, Sarbani Roy, Chandreyee Chowdhury, Proceedings of International Conference on Data Science and ..., page 486

Origin

From qu- + mode.

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qumode. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/qumode

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