https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210224100829.htm > Today's quantum computers contain up to several dozen memory and processing units, the so-called qubits. Severin Daiss, Stefan Langenfeld, and colleagues from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching have successfully interconnected two such qubits located in different labs to a distributed quantum computer by linking the qubits with a 60-meter-long optical fiber. Over such a distance they realized a quantum-logic gate -- the basic building block of a quantum computer. It makes the system the worldwide first prototype of a distributed quantum computer. > The limitations of previous qubit architectures