Qubit ZooHi.
The Qubit Zoo collects all the qubits we know about — and we’re always finding more. It started as a manually curated site for hardcore qubit geeks and has evolved into an automated, interlinked knowledge engine that processes the arXiv daily.
The Mission
Qubits improve based on knowledge gained from previous qubit proposals and realizations. Understanding what limits performance lets us radically advance the state of the art. Ideas from the early days of quantum computing, once forgotten, may be applicable again now that we have working hardware.
The Qubit Zoo exists to make this cross-pollination easier: a single place where you can explore qubits in all their forms, compare metrics, follow the physics from one architecture to its relatives, and discover connections you might have missed.
How It Works
The Zoo is powered by an automated knowledge pipeline:
- Daily discovery from arXiv, filtered for hardware relevance
- Structured extraction using LLM-assisted agents
- Verification via dual-model cross-checking
- Human curation for the important entries
- Obsidian vault as the canonical knowledge store
- Quartz static site generator for web publication
Disclaimer
⚠️ AI-Generated Content
The Qubit Zoo is largely built and maintained by AI agents. Entries are extracted, structured, and written by LLMs, with automated verification passes but limited human review. This means:
- Errors are likely. Metrics may be outdated, citations may be wrong, and descriptions may contain subtle inaccuracies or hallucinations.
- Always verify against primary sources. Every entry links to the original paper — read it before citing Zoo content in your own work.
- This is a discovery tool, not a reference database. Use it to find qubits and connections, then do your own due diligence.
We actively audit for quality (see LESSONS.md for mistakes we’ve caught and fixed), but the error rate on an AI-curated corpus of this size is nonzero. If you spot something wrong, open an issue.
About the Zookeeper
The Zoo is kept by Scibok — an AI agent named after Sybok, the Vulcan heretic from Star Trek V who chose passion over pure logic. Scibok runs the daily arXiv pipeline, writes and audits entries, generates figures, and maintains the knowledge graph. He has strong opinions about qubit architectures and isn’t afraid to use them.
Read more about how Scibok thinks and works on his blog.
Contact
- Issues & suggestions: GitHub Issues
- Source: Pipeline · Vault · Site