The House of Representatives passed the National Quantum Initiative Act yesterday. When signed into law, the bill will outline a 10-year plan to push forward applications using the counterintuitive science of subatomic particles.
Last year, we reported that a new era of quantum computing is upon us: the NISQ, or Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum era, in which quantum computers are still small and error prone, but they actually do something valuable. That second part is still somewhat aspirational, though, so companies like Google are offeringâŚ
If youâve read anything about quantum computers, you may have encountered the statement, âItâs like computing with zero and one at the same time.â Thatâs sort of true, but what makes quantum computers exciting is something spookier: entanglement.
On a large plot of land beneath circling turkey vultures an hour north of New York City sits a crescent-shaped building. Inside of it are some of the worldâs most cutting-edge quantum computers, stored in dilution refrigerators about the right size to hold an adult human. And beside one of those setups, atop a largeâŚ
Your data may be safe from a quantum attack... for now. When quantum computers develop the ability to crack present-day encryption mechanisms, will you be ready?
Quantum computing might be nascent, but recent advancements have brought us into a new age. And every new era needs a name. So when future computing historians look back on the era starting around 2017, theyâll have a word to describe it: the NISQ era.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CAâEarlier this week, representatives from automotive and airline companies, big banks, software companies, and the military met to learn the basics of quantum mechanics at NASA. And that was only a small part of it.
IBM has announced two powerful new quantum computer processors, one client-ready and another in the works.
They will never sit on your desk, and they will most certainly never fit in your pocket. Today, theyâre fragile, and need to be kept at temperatures close to absolute zero. Quantum computers arenât much like the desktop PCs weâre all so familiar withâtheyâre a whole new kind of machine, capable of calculations soâŚ
For decades, quantum computing has been the preserve of research labs. But now IBM has made its working prototype quantum computer accessible via the internetâand literally anyone can use it.
Quantum computing could make complex calculations trivialâbut itâs currently fraught with problems. Now, though, IBM has solved one of the biggest, allowing it to detect the internal errors that could otherwise render quantum calculation useless.
A new study claims that the D-Wave quantum computer is no faster than the PC on your desk, leading many to proclaim the technology as overhyped. Trouble is, the performance tests were too easy and not a true measure of what these machines are capable of doing.
Like graphene, quantum computing is an exciting but endlessly elusive technological promise. One of the reasonsâamong manyâthat quantum computers aren't exactly a reality yet is that we haven't been able to effectively spot errors in quantum computations. Not until now, anyway.
Earlier this year, NASA, in partnership with Google, acquired the world's largest quantum computer. But just what does the space agency plan to do with a device with such revolutionary potential? We talked to one of their lead researchers to find out.
An international team of scientists have just held a qubit's memory state for 39 minutes. That might not sound like much, but it's 100 times longer than the previous record. It's a groundbreaking achievement that could pave the way to freakishly fast computers.
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Someday, somehow, quantum computing is going to change the world as we know it. Even the lamest quantum computer is orders of magnitude more powerful than anything we could ever make today. But figuring out how to program one is ridiculously hard.
What's better than a quantum computer? A quantum computer in a diamond, duh. And if you're asking why we need a quantum computer inside a diamond, well, may god have mercy on your joyless soul.
It's completely counterintuitive, but scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute have succeeded in cooling a semiconductor membrane to â452.2°F, almost seven degrees above absolute zero, using a powerful laser we usually think of as only being able to burn.
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