Google just made it much harder to build a serious quantum computer

Home News Physics Technology Daily news 14 August 2018 Google just made it much harder to build a serious quantum computer Is a quantum revolution near?ALFRED PASIEKA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARYBy Chelsea WhyteGoogle is racing to create the first quantum computer capable of solving a problem ordinary computers cannot – and it has just made that challenge much harder. Achieving “quantum supremacy”, as it is known, involves building a device that can solve a problem faster than any non-quantum computer. In 2016, a team led by Sergio Boixo at Google published a paper showing that even with state-of-the-art supercomputers, it would be infeasible to simulate the behaviour of a quantum circuit with 48 qubits (quantum bits) at a circuit depth … Popular Probiotics are mostly useless and can actually hurt you Cause of polycystic ovary syndrome discovered at last The ‘me’ illusion: How your brain conjures up your sense of self Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display('mpu-sidebar'); });