{"id":396971,"date":"2022-01-20T22:02:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T19:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nuclear-quantum-computing-its-coming\/"},"modified":"2022-01-20T22:02:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T19:02:43","slug":"nuclear-quantum-computing-its-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nuclear-quantum-computing-its-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"#Nuclear quantum computing: It\u2019s coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25a09f16357\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25a09f16357\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nuclear-quantum-computing-its-coming\/#Its_about_damn_time\" >It\u2019s about damn time<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nuclear-quantum-computing-its-coming\/#Not_anymore\" >Not anymore?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nuclear-quantum-computing-its-coming\/#So_what\" >So what?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nuclear-quantum-computing-its-coming\/#The_solution\" >The solution?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nuclear-quantum-computing-its-coming\/#Is_that_safe\" >Is that safe?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Nuclear quantum computing: It\u2019s coming<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image?fit=796%2C417&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2021%2F12%2Fquantumcomputing-1.jpg&amp;signature=cd379b08e9a8eef4a59d4cfbca05013d\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n                            A trio of separate research teams from three different continents published individual papers indicating similar quantum computing breakthroughs yesterday. All three were funded in part by the US Army and each paper <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ears to be a slam dunk for the future of quantum computing.<\/p>\n<p>But only one of them heralds the onset of the age of <em>nuclear quantum computers<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Its_about_damn_time\"><\/span>It\u2019s about damn time<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>                <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/fast.wistia.net\/embed\/iframe\/2767e997um?videoFoam=true&amp;autoPlay=true\" title=\"\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wistia_embed\" name=\"wistia_embed\" allowfullscreen=\"\" msallowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s the whole concept of entanglement, but for a long time it\u2019s felt like we were suspended in a state where functional quantum machines were both \u201cright around the corner\u201d and \u201cdecades or more away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the past few years have seen a more rapid advancement toward functional quantum systems than most technologists could have imagined in their wildest dreams.<\/p>\n<p>The likes of IBM, Microsoft, D-Wave, and Google putting hybrid quantum systems on the cloud coupled with the latter\u2019s amazing time crystal breakthrough have made 2018-2021 the opening years of what promises to be a golden age for quantum computing.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this amazing progress, there are still holdouts who believe we\u2019ll never have a truly useful, fully-functional, qubit-based quantum computing system.<\/p>\n<p>The<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/a-quantum-computing-future-is-unlikely-due-to-random-hardware-errors-126503#:~:text=Noise%20and%20error%20correction&amp;text=In%20a%20quantum%20computer%2C%20such,completed%20in%20even%20less%20time.\"> main reason given by these cynics<\/a> is usually because quantum systems are incredibly error-prone.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Not_anymore\"><\/span>Not anymore?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The three new papers published yesterday (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-021-04292-7\">here<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-021-04273-w\">here<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-021-04182-y\">here<\/a>) should go a long way towards shutting those critics up because each of them manages to address the error-correction problem in quantum computing by, essentially, going back to the drawing board.<\/p>\n<p>The first two teams, one from Tokyo and one from Los Angeles, went about the issue in a similar way while the Australian team decided to take a different approach.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it\u2019s worth noting that all three teams shared various resources in order to help facilitate each other\u2019s research.<\/p>\n<p>The result is that each team was able to build a distinct, silicon-based, two-qubit quantum computing system capable of operating with greater than 99% accuracy.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"So_what\"><\/span>So what?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>That\u2019s pretty cool, but dozens of quantum research centers including IBM\u2019s, Google\u2019s, and Microsoft\u2019s have all developed functional quantum gate systems with dozens or even hundreds of qubits.<\/p>\n<p>IBM and Google, for example, both claim they\u2019ve reached \u201cquantum advantage,\u201d or the point where their quantum computing systems can do things that no regular classical computing system could.<\/p>\n<p>But here in 2022 we\u2019re not talking about being able to flip a switch and do quantum calculations. We\u2019re talking about cutting-edge computation systems that require enormous resources to pull off incredibly specific feats.<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t just upload a neural network to a quantum computer and expect to act like it\u2019s been supercharged. The algorithms we\u2019re currently able to run on cutting-edge quantum systems are more like super-challenging math problems that can still be verified using classical means.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the long and short of it is usually: the more qubits you have the more errors you get.<\/p>\n<p>The new research hopes to alleviate that by creating a new way to handle qubit operations, thus allowing gate-based quantum computer systems to scale.<\/p>\n<p>And, right now, scalability is the single largest hurdle standing in the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>\u2019s way.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_solution\"><\/span>The solution?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s actually fairly simple. All three teams are trying to put qubits on a silicon chip. As Ars Technica\u2019s John Timmer <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2022\/01\/silicon-based-qubits-take-a-big-leap-forward\/\">pointed out yesterday<\/a>, this plays to our current engineering strengths:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That possibility is what makes several results being published yesterday interesting. While there are differences among the three results being announced, they all have one thing in common: high-quality qubits produced in silicon. After all, if there\u2019s anything we know how to scale, it\u2019s silicon-based technologies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What we found most interesting however, is the mind-boggling way in which the Australian team managed to create a pair of nearly errorless qubits: they went nuclear.<\/p>\n<p>In <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/940321\">a press release<\/a> from the University of New South Wales, Mateusz Madzik, a lead author on the Australian team\u2019s research paper, described how entangling an electron with the nuclei of two phosphorous atoms allowed them to control them as qubits without losing information.<\/p>\n<p>Per Madzik:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you have two nuclei that are connected to the same electron, you can make them do a quantum operation.<\/p>\n<p>While you don\u2019t operate the electron, those nuclei safely store their quantum information. But now you have the option of making them talk to each other via the electron, to realize universal quantum operations that can be adapted to any computational problem.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Is_that_safe\"><\/span>Is that safe?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Sure it is. They\u2019re not splitting atoms or fusing them, so there\u2019s probably a pretty close to zero chance that nothing bad will happen. We exploit atoms to do all kinds of things that don\u2019t involve blowing up entire cities.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the Australian team is exploiting a feature of entanglement that allows them to force communication between qubits that, normally, would either horde their information or lose it too quickly for use.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s likely just as safe as using lasers to create qubits out of light, maybe even safer. But the researchers are hoping it\u2019s the foundation for a paradigm that will be much easier to scale than other systems.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day this is all exciting <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>. It\u2019s rare to see a peer-reviewed quantum computing breakthrough because the field is incredibly challenging. Getting three in the same day is a eureka moment in its own right.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it could take a while for these early experiments to pan out and turn into full-fledged quantum computers. But, if we take these papers as a proof-of-concept for the future, things look incredibly bright.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can read more about quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and the wacky world of physics and other mind-blowing future tech right here on Neural.<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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