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Quantinuum Breaks Error-Correction World Record by 10x

By PR NewswireOctober 19, 2026

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Quantinuum achieved a record-breaking 99.9995% logical fidelity, significantly advancing the timeline for fault-tolerant quantum computing.

Quantinuum has announced a major breakthrough in quantum error correction, achieving a logical fidelity of 99.9995%. This result, achieved on the company's Helios system, represents only five errors in a million operations, a performance level 10 times better than their previous record set in September 2026.

The company attributes this success to its advanced error-correction architecture combined with its trapped-ion hardware. This performance is reportedly 100 times lower in error rate than the best published results from other hardware modalities, such as superconducting systems.

These successive breakthroughs demonstrate the rapid gains in accuracy enabled by Quantinuum's technology stack. The company maintains that this progress validates its roadmap to achieving fully fault-tolerant quantum computing by 2029, with current performance metrics now aligning with the requirements for their upcoming Apollo system.

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