Cowboy X said:
In Brief
Earlier today, IBM announced a 50-quantum bit (qubit) quantum computer, the largest in the industry so far. As revolutionary as this development is, IBM's 50-qubit machine is still far from a universal quantum computer.
https://www.ft.com/content/4b40be6c-0181-11e8-9650-9c0ad2d7c5b5Microsoft and Google prepare for big leaps in quantum computing
Companies set to give big boost to potentially revolutionary technology
https://www.cfr.org/blog/quantum-race-united-states-cant-afford-loseThe Quantum Race the United States Can’t Afford To Lose
The quantum race is on, and the stakes are high. The winner will gain a military and intelligence edge, as well as a first mover advantage in what is guaranteed to be a massive industry for decades to come. How will the United States fare?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180523133216.htmNuclear physicists leap into quantum computing with first simulations of atomic nucleus
Scientists have now simulated an atomic nucleus using a quantum computer. The results demonstrate the ability of quantum systems to compute nuclear physics problems and serve as a benchmark for future calculations.
An image of a deuteron, the bound state of a proton and a neutron.
Credit: Andrew Sproles, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/quantum-computer-d-wave-simulationsQuantum computer simulates two types of bizarre materials
It’s the first time such computations have been performed on such large scales
Scientists have used a quantum computer to conduct large-scale simulations of two types of quantum materials. These studies involved about 2,000 quantum bits, or qubits — many more than the tens of qubits available in most quantum computers.
The results, published in two recent studies in Science and Nature, provide a new realization of the vision of physicist Richard Feynman, who hoped to use quantum computers — rather than computers based on standard, or classical, physics — to simulate quantum systems and study their behavior. “Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you’d better make it quantum mechanical,” he famously said in 1981.
That's a problem if you want to latch their state, if you can just build the entire pipeline for the algorithm it's irrelevant. You won't get a programmable quantum computer, but you can get a quantum codebreaker.you cant keep a photon stationary (so to speak) and they get absorbed upon measurement unlike electrons
you cant keep a photon stationary (so to speak)
https://futurism.com/quantum-computer-first-practical/The World’s First Practical Quantum Computer May Be Just Five Years Away
Now, though, the National Science Foundation has plans to pluck quantum computers from the realm of the fantastic and drop them squarely in its research labs. And it’s willing to pay an awful lot to do so.
In August, the federal agency announced the Software-Tailored Architecture for Quantum co-design (STAQ) project. Physicists, engineers, computer scientists, and other researchers from Duke and six other universities (including MIT and University of California-Berkeley) will band together to embark on the five-year, $15 million mission.
In comparison to what? I have no clue, honestly.$3M a year isnt a lot
Starbucks prices?In comparison to what? I have no clue, honestly.
The sort of money needed to develop these things intel probably spent more developing core 2In comparison to what?