Russian Breakthrough Could Unlock Mass Production of Quantum Chips
Scientists in Kazan have identified silicon carbide as a scalable material for stable qubits, a discovery that could bring quantum computing from the lab to the factory floor.
Physicists at Kazan Federal University have found a way to overcome one of the biggest barriers in quantum tech: scaling qubits. Their research shows that silicon carbide, an industrial semiconductor, can serve as a platform for creating stable spin-defect-based qubits. Conducted between 2024 and 2025, the work could open the door to industrial-scale quantum chip production.
Unlike diamond wafers, silicon carbide is already manufactured as large eight-inch wafers at existing semiconductor fabs. That makes it compatible with standard microelectronics techniques such as lithography and etching, paving the way for mass production of quantum processors.
The team has experimentally confirmed that silicon-carbide qubits achieve record-breaking coherence times—lasting several seconds. In quantum computing, that’s an eternity, enough to execute complex computational algorithms.
This development is more than a scientific achievement—it’s a ready-made technological pathway for moving quantum computing from research labs into serial production.
