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IBM Quantum System One uses a dilution refrigerator with liquid helium to hold the QPU near absolute zero (approximately -273 C / 15 mK).","servingUtility":null,"acreage":null,"totalBuildingSqft":null,"streetAddress":"Yonsei University Songdo Campus, Incheon, South Korea","notes":"Yonsei University's Songdo International Campus houses South Korea's first commercial quantum computer, an IBM Quantum System One deployed November 19, 2024 with a 127-qubit Eagle processor, making Yonsei the second university globally (after RPI) to host an on-premises System One. The QPU sits in a 3-meter glass cube inside a purpose-built Quantum Computing Center about 35 km west of Seoul, with an 8,500 sqm quantum research complex under construction next door to anchor an industry-academia cluster developed with Incheon Metropolitan City. In November 2026 Yonsei is scheduled to swap the Eagle for IBM's 120-qubit Nighthawk QPU (square lattice, 218 tunable couplers, roughly 40 percent more computation at equivalent fidelity), which will be the first Nighthawk deployment outside an IBM-controlled site after IBM Miami. Flagship workloads include a hybrid pipeline with RIKEN's Fugaku supercomputer on Leigh syndrome and a drug-discovery and stem-cell collaboration with the University of Cambridge's Milner Therapeutics Institute.","keyFacts":[{"label":"Installed","value":"January 2025 (first IBM Quantum System One in Korea)"},{"label":"Current QPU","value":"IBM Eagle 127-qubit"},{"label":"Upgrade","value":"IBM Nighthawk 120-qubit (November 2026)"},{"label":"Significance","value":"2nd IBM Quantum System One on a university campus globally"},{"label":"Research","value":"Leigh Syndrome research with University of Cambridge"},{"label":"Opened","value":"November 19, 2024"},{"label":"Deployed","value":"November 19, 2024 (first IBM Quantum System One in South Korea)"},{"label":"Ceremonial opening","value":"March 2025, coinciding with Yonsei's 140th anniversary"},{"label":"Current QPU detail","value":"127-qubit IBM Quantum Eagle processor, heavy-hex layout"},{"label":"Nighthawk specs","value":"120 superconducting qubits, square lattice, 218 tunable couplers, 4 direct connections per qubit"},{"label":"First external Nighthawk","value":"November 2026 install will be the first Nighthawk deployment outside an IBM-controlled facility"},{"label":"Housing","value":"System enclosed in a 3-meter glass cube on the Songdo International Campus"},{"label":"Adjacent build-out","value":"8,500 sqm quantum research complex under construction for industry-academia collaboration"},{"label":"Hybrid workflow","value":"Paired with RIKEN's Fugaku supercomputer (Japan) for Leigh syndrome target research"},{"label":"Cambridge partnership","value":"Milner Therapeutics Institute collaboration on AI-driven drug discovery and stem cell research"},{"label":"Regional context","value":"Songdo International Campus, roughly 35 km west of Seoul; 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