Quantum Computing Age Will Start This Year

It's quite a task (technology application as well as resources) that google is building its own chip technology for its quantum computer.

I wonder how much they can (or going to) push it in other areas to accomplish this such as using/developing super conductive materials.

To date quantum computers are already cooled to cryogenic temperatures and isolated from their surroundings (to prevent interference from stray magnetic and electric fields, etc.) in order to minimise decoherence. Maintaining coherence is key to making these machines work. However, keeping these computers so refrigerated consumes a lot of power and takes up a great deal of space. The push is to make these computers work at room temperature, a very difficult problem.

No easy task...

No it won't...

They'll just borrow Microsoft business plan... you know... the blue screen you have is now a standard of your operating system.

This will just get tangled up with the uncertainty of how AI come to a conclusion. Just because any calculating machine, from Charles Babbage's work until today, comes up with an answer doesn't mean it must be a unique answer or even a correct answer. When it becomes impossible to verify how a conclusion was drawn aren't we just coming back to relying on hallucinating mystics and oracles.

Is Bayes correct? Magic 8 ball quantuum machine says "most likely"....

Gotta love it. All I know is that Noah had to measure his Ark 30 cubits in width.

"This will just get tangled up with the uncertainty of how AI come to a conclusion."

Entangled.

As part of a system, isn't everything entangled?...and as such, isn't it just our perception that falls short of recognition....?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160428-entanglement-made-simple/

No. The polarisation of photons streaming from my desklamp for example is independant from and uncorrelated with that of those from your kitchen light.

....or is it?...

Ah, the Devil's Fork (aka the Three-Stick Clevis). As researchers could not agree on how many sticks there were, they finally gave up and decided to ray-trace bowls of jello instead.

Previous researchers have observed that, under certain conditions, Jell-O wiggles [8]. We have been able to simulate these unique and complex Jell-O dynamics using spatial deformations [1] and other hairy mathematics. From previous research with rendering systems, we have learned that a good dose of gratuitous partial differential equations is needed to meet the paper quota for impressive formulas.

Therefore, we solve the Schrodinger wave equation for the Jell-O field J:

_2 2m V J + -- (E - V)J = 0. h

Transforming to a spherical coordinate system [7],

_ dJ 1 dJ 1 dJ VJ = E -- + E - -- + E ----- -- x dr y r dO z rsinO dP 2 _2 1 d 2 dJ 1 d dJ 1 d J V J = -- -- (r --) + ------ -- (sinO --) + ------- --- 2 dr dr 2 dO dO 2 2 2 r r sinO r sin O dP

I am NOT going to sort out the mess CR4's editor made of the above equations.

In other words

J = 0

https://vimeo.com/31011006

All the best ones are.

NOOOO. It is J-E-L-L-O ≠ 0 , in all field gradients, something is jiggity. Although, nearly all integrals to time = ∞ result in zero motion, the notable exception being Jell-O cast on the walls of McMurry University Cafeteria. It takes forever for it to slide - all - the - way - down. Only the elite chefs at McMurry University Cafeteria ever formulated a Jell-O concoction that had such an affinity for glazed wall tile, and it never bounced off.

Yeah, with quantum entanglement at a distance, data rates could be ???

... no faster than the speed of light allows. The speed of light isn't the limiting factor, but the fundamental speed at which information can travel. The speed of light simply happens to be that same speed.

Then the particles interrogated have to simultaneously admit to the crime, and report back with virtual photons?

In the quantum world entangled particles comprise a quantum system. When you measure any one of its components, you are measuring the whole system, one described by a single wavefunction. From its standpoint, there are no separate particles, and so no 'communication' is involved nor required by virtual photons or otherwise. Only in the classical sense are the components separate entities having their own states, and only after a measurement decoheres the system.

I always looked at quantum entanglement as a paradox of classical mechanics looking at quantum mechanics.

If you think entanglement is weird then you wouldn't want to be Schrodinger's pet. Meow.

That's where the Higgs Boson comes into affect.

The Higg's boson has nothing to do with this. In fact the Higgs field does not interact with photons at all (which is why they are massless), and yet they can be entangled. Entanglement is a property fundamental to quantum mechanics as a whole and transcends the properties of particular particles. It is those properties that can be entangled, not facilitated by them.

Photons have relativistic 'mass' inversely proportional to their wavelength...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail

No, photons do not have mass. They do have momentum which is proportional to their wavelength but that momentum is not proportional to their velocity for they have zero mass.

Oops, momentum should either be proportional to frequency or inversely proportional to wavelength.

The development of quantum computers affects data encryption. Shor's Algorithm is a quantum algorithm for factoring large numbers in polynomial time. Factoring is important in Public Key systems and quantum computers will make it much less secure.

http://wstein.org/edu/2010/414/projects/chu.pdf

Shor's Algorithm is a quantum algorithm for factoring large numbers in polynomial time. Factoring is important in Public Key systems and quantum computers will make it much less secure.

I had understood that quantum computers would make it obsolete.

Quite the opposite. Shor's Algorithm is what prompted intensive research into quantum computing.

Thanks,... I copied and pasted too much should have read it more closely.... But my point still stands that it would make the conventional encryption obsolete.

Factoring is important in Public Key systems and quantum computers will make it much less secure.

an excerpt; from the link

Shor's algorithm could be used to break public-key cryptography schemes such as the widely used RSA scheme. RSA is based on the assumption that factoring large numbers is computationally intractable. So far as is known, this assumption is valid for classical (non-quantum) computers; no classical algorithm is known that can factor in polynomial time. However, Shor's algorithm shows that factoring is efficient on an ideal quantum computer, so it may be feasible to defeat RSA by constructing a large quantum computer.

Yes, that is certainly true. Enter quantum cryptography.

Here's a good article on how quantum computing will help Chemistry.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603794/chemists-are-first-in-line-for-quantum-computings-benefits/

So who programs these computers, to setup their way/form of reasoning?

Or are they self taught.

After all, it's only a machine and, only as good as the people programming it. So inevitable they will have human flaws and fallibilities.

Garbage IN, garbage OUT.

Until the machine gets to a point where it's self aware and, can make decisions for itself. Then we're in trouble.

They probably need a quantum nippers, screw drivers, screws and all sorts to fix that one. It ain't an easy job. I tell you that.