First programmable Quantum Computer

[NumLock21]

 

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A fully reprogrammable quantum computer has been built and tested for the first time, marking a milestone in the development of powerful problem-solving technology that harnesses the weird properties of sub-atomic particles.

 

Scientist at the university of Maryland has created the very first reprogrammable quantum computer. It was made possible by using lasers, as it hits each of 5 individual charged IONS, surrounding by a magnetic field, that lies at the core of the machine. When the laser hits the ions, it's able to change it from one state to the other or both. Something that can't be done to a traditional computer, where it can only understand 1s and 0s. With this, scientist are able to program softwares, where even the most powerful traditional computers can't solve, such at Quantum Fourier Transform (QFT), a highly complex programs that's used to break strong encryptions. While this first reprogrammable quantum computer only consist of 5 ions, it's flexibility allows for scientist to add more later on.

 

 

http://www.irishexaminer.com/examviral/science-world/scientists-have-created-a-quantum-computer-that-can-be-reprogrammed-with-laser-beams-413989.html

 

[themctipers]

but, can it run crysis 3? :DDDDDDDD 

[Doughnutnator]

5 minutes ago, themctipers said:

but, can it run crysis 3? :DDDDDDDD 

Yes and no. 

[FloRolf]

1 minute ago, Doughnutnator said:

Yes and no. 

Schrödingers Quantum Gaming Computer?

 

I wonder how many of These things you'd Need to match the compute power of a traditional Workstation. Or is it the other way around?

[themctipers]

2 minutes ago, Doughnutnator said:

Yes and no. 

can it help with researching for ios jailbreaks in the future?  

[DXMember]

3 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

Schrödingers Quantum Gaming Computer?

 

I wonder how many of These things you'd Need to match the compute power of a traditional Workstation. Or is it the other way around?

it's not useful for precise calculations

it's used for statistics, simulations of probabilistic environments

[Doughnutnator]

6 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

Schrödingers Quantum Gaming Computer?

 

I wonder how many of These things you'd Need to match the compute power of a traditional Workstation. Or is it the other way around?

Lol yeah

I find all this quantum thing super interesting, sadly I don't know much. 

 

Like someone said, they're used for statistics and that stuff, but i'm pretty sure that we will somehow find the way to crunch numbers with them and use their potential. Let's remember that the first PC's were giant calculators, now they're meme-makers.

[Dresta]

Since quantum computers are much faster than normal computers at calculations i would like to mine with them  

[techswede]

1 hour ago, Dresta said:

Since quantum computers are much faster than normal computers at calculations i would like to mine with them  

Would be nice to see a few set up that are just folding machines. 

[Doobeedoo]

Ooh, nice, quite interesting.
I really wanna see where quantum computing will go in couple of years.

[Master Disaster]

On 04/08/2016 at 6:52 AM, Dresta said:

Since quantum computers are much faster than normal computers at calculations i would like to mine with them  

That's the understatement of the century

[Coaxialgamer]

We still have a lot of way to go... 

 5 qubits wont replace servers...  But it's a good start! 

[Nup]

On 04/08/2016 at 9:47 AM, techswede said:

Would be nice to see a few set up that are just folding machines. 

I can imagine they'd be perfect for that!! 

[Master Disaster]

1 hour ago, Coaxialgamer said:

We still have a lot of way to go... 

 5 qubits wont replace servers...  But it's a good start! 

Like a meaningful way of actually interfacing with them.

[PRTI]

1 hour ago, Coaxialgamer said:

We still have a lot of way to go... 

 5 qubits wont replace servers...  But it's a good start! 

While still Quantum Computers are useless for us since it can't do as many things as a normal computer,but for servers they would be perfect,but for now they cost a shit tone of money to produce

[laminutederire]

Do you guys realize that without at least a master's degree you can't understand how to use those things?

[patrickjp93]

1 hour ago, laminutederire said:

Do you guys realize that without at least a master's degree you can't understand how to use those things?

I have a Bachelor's, and I know how to do quantum programming thanks to the language and compiler D-Wave released 4 years ago. It's called do your own research/experimentation.

[laminutederire]

1 hour ago, patrickjp93 said:

I have a Bachelor's, and I know how to do quantum programming thanks to the language and compiler D-Wave released 4 years ago. It's called do your own research/experimentation.

You can program for it, maybe. But do you know how it works "hardware" wise and how to troubleshoot it?

It's not as simple as a normal computer. 

You'd have to have a good understanding of quantum physics to use it properly.

[PRTI]

1 minute ago, laminutederire said:

You can program for it, maybe. But do you know how it works "hardware" wise and how to troubleshoot it?

It's not as simple as a normal computer. 

You'd have to have a good understanding of quantum physics to use it properly.

Hardware wise its simple,software wise and use wise might be more complicated,but we will need to see

[laminutederire]

Just now, keNNySOC said:

Hardware wise its simple,software wise and use wise might be more complicated,but we will need to see

Okay if it's simple, explain it to me in a post

[PRTI]

2 minutes ago, laminutederire said:

Okay if it's simple, explain it to me in a post

I don't want to quote something that already exists,if you listen closely you can understand everything,for me to explain everything in a post would take way to long.

 

[patrickjp93]

10 minutes ago, laminutederire said:

You can program for it, maybe. But do you know how it works "hardware" wise and how to troubleshoot it?

It's not as simple as a normal computer. 

You'd have to have a good understanding of quantum physics to use it properly.

On a high level, yes. Do I need to know exactly what wavelength of light is used and how strong the pulses are? No. That said, I could figure it all out without a Master's Degree.

[laminutederire]

21 minutes ago, keNNySOC said:

I don't want to quote something that already exists,if you listen closely you can understand everything,for me to explain everything in a post would take way to long.

 

Yes it would take too long. Because the guy talks 6 minutes, and he left off a lot of things required to understand how it really works. He explained what people understood more than 30 to even 50 years ago. As he said, how you compute is not trivial, and that is what is interesting about it.

I read the article about that. Not the article quoted, but the actual article, the one scientists published in nature. It's 10 page long, does a loot of shortcuts, and uses complex mathematic and physics principles.

 

21 minutes ago, patrickjp93 said:

On a high level, yes. Do I need to know exactly what wavelength of light is used and how strong the pulses are? No. That said, I could figure it all out without a Master's Degree.

Modest much?

How would you calculate errors?  What are the uncertainties of your measurements?

How can you "figure it out"?

Amaze me.

 

 

There is a reason why those are just discovered, it's because it isn't that easy. I myself cannot grasp it enough to be knowledgeable about it, but even people who are knowledgeable on those subjects admit that there is a strong difference between what results are shown through normal medium and what results are shown from scientific newspapers.

[patrickjp93]

31 minutes ago, laminutederire said:

Yes it would take too long. Because the guy talks 6 minutes, and he left off a lot of things required to understand how it really works. He explained what people understood more than 30 to even 50 years ago. As he said, how you compute is not trivial, and that is what is interesting about it.

I read the article about that. Not the article quoted, but the actual article, the one scientists published in nature. It's 10 page long, does a loot of shortcuts, and uses complex mathematic and physics principles.

 

Modest much?

How would you calculate errors?  What are the uncertainties of your measurements?

How can you "figure it out"?

Amaze me.

 

 

There is a reason why those are just discovered, it's because it isn't that easy. I myself cannot grasp it enough to be knowledgeable about it, but even people who are knowledgeable on those subjects admit that there is a strong difference between what results are shown through normal medium and what results are shown from scientific newspapers.

It's not about modesty. It's about competency, resolve, and time. I understand QM well enough to have aced both classes. As for the measurements, aluminum oxide reaction and power output fluctuations. I'd figure out the wavelength within 2 nm with just 6 tries. As for errors, there are known limits for how that reaction works.

 

There is a lot of intricacy, but that doesn't make it near-impossible to understand.

[SSL]

3 minutes ago, patrickjp93 said:

It's not about modesty.

 

With you, never.