Quantum World Record Crushed

[qwertywarrior]

 

An amazing key barrier toward quantum computing has been crushed for a new world record time of 39 minutes! This normally fragile quantum state has been shown to survive for the 39 minutes to be crowned the new world record. This was accomplished by an international team that included Stephanie Simmons of Oxford University UK.

The team reported on this test performed by Mike Thewalt from Simon Fraser University Canada. Other colleagues help to perform this amazing test. In today's world, computers store data in strings of 1's and 0's. In this experiment "qubits" were put into a "superposition" which allows the quantum computer to to perform multiple calculations simultaneously by doing both 1's and 0's at the exact same time.

In order for the team to perform this experiment they raised the temperature of the nuclei of phosphorus atoms in silicon from -269 C to a balmy 25 C in which it lasted a record breaking 39 minutes. Before this amazing experiment it was recorded to only last about two seconds!

this means it can play and not play crysis at the same time for 39 minutes  !

 

http://www.nextpowerup.com/news/5344/quantum-world-record-crushed.html

http://phys.org/news/2013-11-quantum-world.html

 

i will not try to understand this

so this is my current reaction

 

[NohbdyKnows]

wut

 

My brain just exploded

 

 

But besides that. This is actually pretty cool

[Morpheus]

lol i don't know anything about this but it sounds like good news sooooo YAYAYAYA

[Bluejay0]

wait. No lag. For 39 minutes.....

 

TIME TO GET A QUANTUM DOEMAHICKIES

[Lord Pantaloons]

I have no idea what this is but it must be cool because Crysis was mentioned.

[Gunzkewl]

 they raised the temperature of the nuclei of phosphorus atoms in silicon from -269 C to a balmy 25 C in which it lasted a record breaking 39 minutes. Before this amazing experiment it was recorded to only last about two seconds!

 

[Eroda]

quantum computing.. 10+ years away 

[zip2k4]

this sounds good, I doubt I'd live to see a proper quantum consumer PC, but this is a good direction the way it's going

[LOST TALE]

over 9000 PETA FLOPS!

[juretrn]

quantum computing.. always 10+ years away 

fixed that for ya. 

[Eroda]

fixed that for ya. 

 

Damn

[LOST TALE]

quantum computing.. 10+ years away 

then... we get weather forecast years ahead

[Vindola]

 

Quantum computing must be done at very cold temps to avoid quantum decoherence. These guys were able to do it at basically room temperatures... and for a long while.

[JLCitadel]

I don't see how this is difficult to comprehend. I think most people have the capability to understand it they just choose to not try and make a joke about it. If I'm not incorrect in stating, this is my interpretation of the post:

 

Normal Computers Can Be Either 1 or 0 (on or off)

Quantum Computers Can Be On & Off at the Same Time

 

Because Of This It was Believed to have to be done at colder temperatures, now they were able to do it near room temperature, and not only that but extend the duration by which it was on.

 

I believe this is the basic understanding of it. Clarify if I'm wrong.

[AlexGoesHigh]

so it did 2+2 multiple times on that exact moment for 39 minutes... damn that's a lot of 4...

[Vindola]

then... we get weather forecast years ahead

 

NOPE!

 

To be able to create weather simulations this far ahead into the future, about specific days, years ahead, not only do we need computers that run this simulation, but the data we collect and plug into these computers must be extremely bigger and more accurate than what we do today. Developing such powerful sensors for satellites to read this extremely big and accurate data about what goes on into the atmosphere is not really worth it.

 

The best we would be able to do is predict big weather changes (as they are more obvious to detect) on a certain period (no more accurate than 1 week) few years ahead. Example: "A giant typhoon will hit northern Gulf of Mexico around mid July 2016"

 

Still, quite valuable, we would be able to prepare for tsunamis, typhoons, floods, and major droughts a lot better.

[coder-guy22296]

I found this article pretty interesting thanks for posting

[Agons]

So I could use this you look at porn..... then when I get caught I can use scientific evidence to show I was at the same time, Not looking at porn