Scientists Demonstrate Quantum Chaos Control on IBM Processor

People's Daily reported that scientists from Rutgers University, IBM, and other institutions demonstrated the ability to repeatedly check and reset qubits during operation on a processor with 156 qubits, driving the system from chaos into a controllable, ordered state. Conducting tests on an IBM Quantum Heron processor, the research team selected a system of up to 100 interconnected qubits and alternated between two tasks: mixing information between neighboring qubits to induce chaos, and repeatedly checking and resetting qubits to restore order. During the experiment, the team performed nearly 5000 two-qubit operations and nearly 5000 check-and-reset operations. When checking and resetting became more frequent, the system shifted into a controllable ordered state, displaying a phase transition when task frequencies approached parity. The experiment demonstrates that existing quantum hardware can coordinate quantum operations, measurements, and resets across larger-scale systems thousands of times, although achieving true fault-tolerant computing still requires continuous, reliable error detection and correction.