SnowDrop 8Q Superconducting Quantum Coprocessor

Proceed with caution

Why

A primary institutional source (Bauman MSTU's own faculty announcement) documents a real, named, dated quantum artifact with concrete measured fidelities, a specified architecture and a working public cloud platform, corroborated independently by a national science portal, a Russian IT-industry reference, a developer-community outlet and two international technology outlets. It is admitted as a forward-batch exception because its true first public appearance (8 December 2025) predates the current discovery cutoff, and it is plainly absent from the register: Russia held zero of 1426 records before this admission. The record carries an explicit contradicting signal and four honest blockers, so its claimed-versus-verified gap reflects the real distance between an eight-qubit research coprocessor and production quantum advantage.

Next

Watch for publication of the Physical Review Applied paper, the next chip beyond eight qubits, whether two-qubit fidelity holds above 99.9% at larger scale, and whether the commercial SnowDrop line ships beyond the four-to-ten-qubit research range.