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IBM Torino

Superconducting Transmon • 133 Qubits • Heavy-Hex Lattice • Heron r1 • IBM Quantum System Two • First Heron Ever Deployed (Dec 2023)
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Hardware Deep Dive

The IBM Torino (ibm_torino) is the first IBM Quantum system to deploy the Heron r1 processor, unveiled at the IBM Quantum Summit in December 2023. Heron marked a fundamental departure from IBM's previous Eagle architecture by introducing tunable couplers between fixed-frequency transmon qubits. These couplers can be dynamically switched to suppress inter-qubit crosstalk during idle periods, which was a leading source of error in earlier IBM processors. IBM reported a 3 to 5 times improvement in device performance over the 127-qubit Eagle, not by dramatically increasing qubit count, but by prioritising gate quality, coherence, and circuit depth. The system lives inside an IBM Quantum System Two dilution refrigerator at IBM's quantum data center, operating at approximately 15 millikelvin.

Technical Specifications

Architecture Fixed-Frequency Superconducting Transmon
Processor Family Heron r1 Source
Physical Qubits 133 Source
Topology Heavy-Hexagonal Lattice (max 3 neighbors per qubit)
Native Gates CZ, ID, RZ, SX, X Source
Tunable Couplers Yes — suppresses crosstalk to <0.1% level Source
TLS Mitigation No (introduced with Heron r2)
Median 2Q Gate Error ~3×10−3 (recalibrated, mid-2024) Source
Max Two-Qubit Gates ~2,880 (at launch utility experiment scale) Source
Performance vs. Eagle 3–5x improvement in device performance Source
Median T1 / T2 ~100–200 µs / ~50–150 µs Source
Operating Temperature ~15 millikelvin (dilution refrigerator)
System IBM Quantum System Two
Introduced December 2023 (IBM Quantum Summit 2023) Source
Cloud Access IBM Quantum Platform (IBM Cloud) via Qiskit SDK

Common Provider Questions

How does ibm_torino differ from the Eagle processors that came before it?

Eagle processors (127 qubits) used fixed-frequency transmon qubits with always-on coupling, which meant crosstalk between neighbouring qubits was a persistent source of error. Heron r1, as deployed on ibm_torino, introduced tunable couplers that can be actively switched off when a gate is not in progress, suppressing crosstalk errors to below the 0.1% level. IBM reported a 3 to 5 times improvement in overall device performance as a result, even though the qubit count only increased from 127 to 133. The Heron architecture also underpins IBM's modular System Two platform, where multiple Heron chips can eventually operate together in a single cryostat.