{"id":95140,"date":"2017-07-10T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=95140"},"modified":"2017-07-06T13:10:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T12:10:46","slug":"two-students-just-broke-a-quantum-computing-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/07\/two-students-just-broke-a-quantum-computing-world-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Students Just Broke a Quantum Computing World Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Researchers from Sweden have successfully simulated a 45-qubit quantum circuit, breaking the record for the greatest number of qubits to be simulated. This important milestone puts humanity one step closer to “quantum supremacy,” the point at which quantum computers could outperform any traditional computer. <\/em><\/p>\n

5 Jul 2017 – <\/em>Two Ph.D. students from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)<\/a>\u00a0have successfully simulated<\/a>\u00a0a\u00a045-qubit quantum circuit, inching us closer to quantum supremacy\u00a0\u2014 the point at which quantum computers could outperform any extant classical computer, estimated to require 49 qubits.<\/p>\n

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Thomas H\u00e4ner<\/a> and Damien Steiger<\/a>\u00a0also successfully simulated 30-, 36- and 42-qubit quantum circuits during their time at\u00a0the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)<\/a> at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The students\u00a0used 8,192 of the 9,688 Intel Xeon Phi processors on Cori<\/a>, NERSC\u2019s newest supercomputer, for the largest of their simulations. Unfortunately, they could not run an even larger simulation using all of the supercomputer\u2019s nodes as that would risk the system collapsing.<\/p>\n

The Quantum Revolution<\/strong><\/p>\n

Quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize the entire world by increasing the\u00a0processing power of computers by orders of magnitude. However, two questions have thus far stumped quantum computer creators: how to create machines with sufficient processing power and how to scale those machines for mass production.<\/p>\n

Supermaterials like\u00a0graphene have been suggested<\/a>\u00a0as an answer to the first problem, but researchers will want to calibrate and optimize their designs before sinking precious money and time into their endeavors. That\u2019s where simulations become essential, according to a\u00a0paper H\u00e4ner and Steiger presented at SC16<\/a>:<\/p>\n

While large-scale quantum computers are not yet available, their performance can be inferred using quantum compilation frameworks and estimates of potential hardware specifications. However, without testing and debugging quantum programs on small scale problems, their correctness cannot be taken for granted. Simulators and emulators \u2026 are essential to address this need.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The potential uses for quantum computers once they are developed are seemingly infinite. While most center on complex data analysis, which classical computers can only perform very slowly or not at all, others have considered even more innovative uses for quantum systems.<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JhHMJCUmq28<\/p>\n

Kindred<\/a> has hypothesized that a robotic exoskeleton<\/a> capable of managing the work of four people could be powered using a quantum computer. A\u00a0molecule has been modeled successfully<\/a> using one, paving the way to computing entire chemical systems, and Google has considered\u00a0using quantum computing to enable their autonomous vehicle\u00a0to distinguish cars from other objects more effectively.<\/p>\n

Truly, the era of the quantum computer is just on the horizon, and once we reach it, every computer system we use will have the potential to become faster and more powerful.<\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 futurism.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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