{"id":100951,"date":"2020-01-16T15:02:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T23:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/alphazero-learns-to-rule-the-quantum-world"},"modified":"2020-01-16T15:02:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T23:02:47","slug":"alphazero-learns-to-rule-the-quantum-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/alphazero-learns-to-rule-the-quantum-world","title":{"rendered":"AlphaZero learns to rule the quantum world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alphazero-learns-to-rule-the-quantum-world2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The chess world was amazed when the computer algorithm AlphaZero learned, after just four hours on its own, to beat the best chess programs built on human expertise. Now a research group at Aarhus University in Denmark has used the very same algorithm to control a quantum computer.<\/p>\n<p>All across the world, numerous research groups are attempting to build a quantum <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/computer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">computer<\/a>. Such a computer would be able to solve certain problems that cannot be solved with current classical computers, even if we combined all these computers in the world into one.<\/p>\n<p>At Aarhus University, researchers share the ambition of building a quantum computer. For this reason, a research group under the direction of Professor Jacob Sherson has just used the computer algorithm AlphaZero to learn to control a quantum system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chess world was amazed when the computer algorithm AlphaZero learned, after just four hours on its own, to beat the best chess programs built on human expertise. Now a research group at Aarhus University in Denmark has used the very same algorithm to control a quantum computer. All across the world, numerous research groups [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}