In a scene from the movie Gladiator, Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, worried about the fragility of his empire, tells his general, Maximus: “There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish.” The same could be said qubits. They are foundational components of quantum computers, and are one of thornier challenges in getting stable and usable systems up and running. A key reason is how fragile they are and how easily they can lose thei...