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Quantum computing gets closer
PHYSICS BOFFINS at Yale University have made a quantum leap into the world of quantum computing, having managed to perform a couple of basic tasks on a solid-state chip that is essentially a two-qubit quantum processor.
Performing a search query may not seem like much, but to the team of physicists from Yale, the achievement is being celebrated as a major breakthrough on the road to quantum computing.
"Our processor can perform only a few very simple quantum tasks, which have been demonstrated before with single nuclei, atoms and photons. But this is the first time they've been possible in an all-electronic device that looks and feels much more like a regular microprocessor," said the team's leader, Robert Schoelkopf.
In an ordinary digital computer, a bit can either exist in the "1" or "0" position, corresponding to "on" or "off", respectively, whereas a qubit - subject to the laws of quantum mechanics - can exist as the superposition of both states simultaneously.
In the device, two simulated qubits, each made up of a billion aluminum atoms, are the building blocks of quantum computations. Basically, the billion aluminum atoms that make up each simulated qubit behave like a single particle that can occupy two different energy states at the same time. This opens up a whole range of possibilities for future computational performance.
Still, before you get too excited, the qubits generated so far have been extremely short lived. A decade ago, the first qubits that were created lasted only a nanosecond before they decayed, but the ones simulated in this chip last for an entire microsecond, a thousand times improvement.
"We're still far away from building a practical quantum computer, but this is a major step forward," said Schoelkopf.
More details about the solid-state quantum processor appear in the June 28th advanced online issue of the journal Nature. µ
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When science becomes dogma is when people believe that "all possibilities have been exhausted and no other possibilities exist". This why prof suck up propeller heads know and believe the world is flat. Until people like Galileo, Kepler and Newton come along and change things. They lack the open mindedness of a child to continue to explore the realms of science with a new an unfettered mind much like a child.
It is for this reason I say to the people who have never been on the inside to see past the dogmas of this reality which are instituted to maintain the status quo. If you knew about the most earth shattering discovery of how Dr. Lee and Yang came up with a new view which brought curved space into the equation and how Burkhardt Heim has come closer than anyone at explaining quantum forces at work then you have two choices. 1st, learn to be open minded or 2nd, believe the world is flat because you prof showed you the equation and you believed him. Some of the greatest idiots of our time have said things only to be proven wrong.
So I say, unless you can prove me wrong my statement, albeit from this inside stand until you prove them wrong. Let me say this another way. Cling to your dogmas until you grow the stones to unshackle yourself from your rules which you already know are flawed. Just because you have never seen the Quantum computing array underneath Schriever AFB doesn't mean it doesn't exist. And from someone who was on the inside you cannot argue with the outcome Seymour Cray died after he came out and said he was going to release quantum computing to the world.
Those who spent billions on R&D couldn't let this kind of world changing technology out. Just as they cannot let the Dr Lee and Yang discovery into mainstream science. Why ? Don't be naive. It has always been about controlling the information and only allowing you to see what they want you to see. Take it from someone who was on the inside. This is not up for debate being that I have seen behind the veil.
It is not surprising that everyone here on this thread does not understand the basis for physics today. Its foundation is in "U1 Symmetry Electrodynamics". This premise essential says all time space is flat. This is not the case, just as the world is not flat time is also not flat. The only way the 5 laws of thermodynamic work assumes a flat time space.
Maxwell's original Quaternion triple integral equations calculated a force Maxwell called "Electrosqueeze". The equations were difficult at best in the 1860's to solve with a pen and paper. Oliver Heaviside and Hendrik Lorentz were resolved to simplify Maxwell's equations to simple 3 vector matrices. You have to remember that this was before the discovery of the electron and flat time space was more important that requiring all University students to do math that was out of the depths of most scholars. So this flat time space stuff made life much easier.
Well along come Dr's Lee and Yang who one the Nobel Prize in Physics which show that the charge states at either end of a dipole are asymmetric proving again that Lorentz and Heaviside really screwed up. What is even bigger travesty is that the lies that have been perpetrated to keep this going. Take a look at this vid and tell me if QT could take a major step forward if people would recognize Maxwell's original equations for what they really are. "A major step in the ability to engineer at the quantum level. And for all you knee jerk propeller head university suck ups this means you were and your prof's are wrong...
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Quantum Mechanics is not going to lead us to the Final Theory of Everything.
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Shame on The Inq. for publishing this.. "quantum computing" is just a pipe dream, the domain of academics who make toys in order to receive research grants, rather than going through the relevant evolution of technology.
Also shame on the inq for publishing some of the comments on this article.
If they were jokes, they were lame, if they were supposed to represent reality, go see a psychologist, get a grip etc.
There are precisely Zero quantum computers on earth, just models, toys etc., there won't be any for MANY decades to come, IF it can be made to work.
Seymour Cray was a great man, worth of a Massive Statue. A great, more usefull than a dozen Einstein or Hawkings, a truly rare intellect, a true loss to the field.
Can we just try to keep his history real please?
I'm not dissin' the tinfoil hat assasination theories, he would have had people who wanted him out of the way (competitors, both for commercial and political reasons) but there is no evidence, and accidents, sadly, do happen.
Shit.. Maybe there is a different date for April Fools this year???
Quantum mechanics IS proven, there have been experiments performed that prove this. There are things that have been done in scientific experiments that can't be explained with Newtonian mechanics. I don't remember the exact experiment, but it has been shown that a subatomic particle can take two different paths at exactly the same time. It's a real trick to observe it in a way that won't "collapse" the duality before it's observed, but it's been done.
Also, to the person who thinks the progress is slow and useless, they have gone from qubits living a billionth a second to a millionth of a second in a decade. Moore's Law(yes, I know it's not truly a law) only tends to give about a 100-fold improvement in a decade, so quantum computing is advancing faster than silicon-based computing in a sense. Don't knock progress, man. Rome wasn't built in a day.
Lemme guess, you have a real theory that supplants QM but no one in science will listen to you because they are so corrupt and fixated on the ideas of QM. Am I close?
Quantum computing will never work because quantum mechanics is not science, it is math. Particles exist in one state only. Otherwise the world would not work. The moon does NOT vanish when you are not looking at it-- tides work even when the moon isn't visible and people have no clue what causes them. One day a real physical theory of the sub-atomic realm will take hold. Don't hold your breath for quantum anything--it's a way over-sold measurement problem.
Colorado Springs, Colo. -- Supercomputer pioneer Seymour Cray was
critically injured in a traffic accident Sunday afternoon on Interstate
Hwy. 25 near the Air Force Academy in Colorado.
Cray, 70, who started Eagan-based Cray Research Inc., was reported to be in critical and unstable condition at Penrose Hospital in Colorado Springs
Sunday night, following surgery for massive head injuries. According to press reports, Cray suffered a broken neck and underwent surgery for swelling of the brain.
Three cars carrying 10 people were involved in the accident but only Cray
was injured, said Sgt. Rob Wilson of the Colorado State Patrol. Wilson said
Cray was driving a 1995 Jeep Cherokee and had just entered I-25 southbound
when the accident took place.
Another car following Cray's vehicle, pulled out to pass Cray and clipped
a third car. Cray's vehicle went out of control and rolled three times,
police said. Cray was alone in his car.
=== Cray was just a short drive from Schriever AFB where he frequented. After all his baby was the first Quantum Array the world has never seen. He gets knocked off the road in a way that looks like an accident.. or so it would seem. The truth be told.. These people who wish to play hard ball dealt Seymour his last hand. ===
This is really laughable. Deep underground Schriever AFB lies Seymore Cray's Quantum computing array. With ~5000 racks being fed by UV fiber optics the Cray 6 Quantum computing complex could be said to be one of the wonders of the world. If Seymore wasn't killed for his wish to release this technology to the people. Some call his death and accident. Others who knew that Seymour wanted to give away the Quantum computer knew the man who believed in benevolent acts.
The Cray 6 computers that are in operation today are used to analyze every electronic signal from everywhere on the face of the earth.
If you said that the Cray 6 could issue a new era in science, yes, it could do this. If you said that it would give us a fighting change to overcome those who have bought into Alternative 3, a study done by the Rand Corp in 1959, wouldn't that be something.
D-Wave Systems doesn't seem to be getting the attention that it once did. After all they were one of the first (above ground) commercial endeavors to go after quantum computing.
@thechevron
Well difficult to predict for sure but for example current key based encryption will be novelty to decrypt.
...what a Quantum Computer is -
"In an ordinary digital computer, a bit can either exist in the "1" or "0" bla, bla, bla."
You know being a tech site and all; One would think that the readers are up to date on these thingies....
If QuBit could be Reborn, again & again. Hey-Microsoft Reborns Activation Costs, ALL Time.
Send QuBit to Microsoft Activation.
vondrashek KING Me.
does anyone know what the new benifits will be from quantum computing?
Unfulfilled promises? Noone has ever promised Quantum Computing would be usable before 2050. I wouldn't get worried about lacking progress until 2040.
Oh the unfulfilled promises of "quantum computing." But in the end, I'm sure another "major breakthrough" like this will appear ten years from now and be equally as useless for real computing.