{"id":103218,"date":"2020-03-03T19:04:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T03:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/google-claims-its-quantum-computer-can-do-the-impossible-in-200-seconds"},"modified":"2020-03-03T19:04:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T03:04:06","slug":"google-claims-its-quantum-computer-can-do-the-impossible-in-200-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/google-claims-its-quantum-computer-can-do-the-impossible-in-200-seconds","title":{"rendered":"Google claims its quantum computer can do the impossible in 200 seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-claims-its-quantum-computer-can-do-the-impossible-in-200-seconds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2019<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Google claims it has designed a machine that needs only 200 seconds to solve a problem that would take the world\u2019s fastest supercomputer 10,000 years to figure out.<\/p>\n<p>The speed achieved by the computer represents a breakthrough called \u201cquantum supremacy,\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/ai.googleblog.com\/2019\/10\/quantum-supremacy-using-programmable.html\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a> from the company and an accompanying article in the scientific journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-019-1666-5\" target=\"_blank\">Nature<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The results announced Wednesday herald the rise of <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2016\/05\/04\/technology\/ibm-quantum-computing\/\" target=\"_blank\">quantum computers<\/a>, which can store and <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/03\/14\/world\/russia-scientists-reverse-time-scli-scn-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">process much more information than their classical cousins<\/a> by tapping into the powerful forces contained in the field of physics known as quantum mechanics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2019 Google claims it has designed a machine that needs only 200 seconds to solve a problem that would take the world\u2019s fastest supercomputer 10,000 years to figure out. The speed achieved by the computer represents a breakthrough called \u201cquantum supremacy,\u201d according to a blog post from the company and an accompanying article in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103218","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=103218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}