Qubits, Coins, Understanding Strategic Implications of Quantum Technology
The strategic implications are understood when a grasp of the basis for quantum computing is had.
December 24, 2018
The strategic implications are understood when a grasp of the basis for quantum computing is had.
Zapata Computing. Zapata Computing ratchets up their up-start chalk-talk. Details from a quantum computing business’ upstart. They’re more than quantum algorithms and applications. This
Finally? D-Wave’s 2048-qubit quantum annealer (quantum computer) has successfully simulated a topological phase transition. Successfully producing their results “is a major step toward reducing the need for time-consuming and expensive physical” R&D. The results of the study validate the D-Wave quantum computer; a fully-programmable, accurate simulator, using quantum bits (qubits) to compute results to complex problems.
Quantum computer systems are ‘buggy’. Their very nature requires immense cycles of validation. Rice University computer scientists believe their algorithm, Projected Factored Gradient Decent (ProjFGD), reduces the number of measurements many-fold.
Using qubits to counter qubit errors without generating more errors or collapsing “the entire enterprise.”
Educating ourselves in the fundamentals of quantum computing [or the theory of it] is paramount to understanding even the simplest of quantum topics.
Simulating qubits is no small challenge. Atos’ recent work in modeling noise in quantum systems has allowed simulation of a 41 qubit machine. The anticipated studies with the new device will enable testing of quantum algorithms with artificial intelligence applications. There’s already buyers for the Atos QLM, including the U.S. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, France, and now Austria.
Renowned researcher, Pan Jianwei, lead a team of physicists from the University of Science and Technology of China with others from Alibaba’s Quantum Computing Laboratory. The research demonstrated entanglement of 6 photons, creating 18 qubits. The entanglements exploited three degrees of freedom encompassing their polarization, orbital angular momentum, and path. This nearly doubles the previous record of 10 entangled qubits.
Time to remind ourselves — or just learn — what quantum computing is about fundamentally.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s research teams recently integrated quantum dots and donor atoms to produce qubits with little degradation. There are two primary benefits from this new qubit. First, maintaining of the quantum data stored in the spin (coherence). Second, use of silicon materials which have manufacturing infrastructure readily available. Keeping coherence high is a necessity to developing practical quantum computers.
