{"id":115844,"date":"2020-11-13T22:22:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T06:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/quantum-internet-the-next-global-network-is-already-being-laid"},"modified":"2020-11-13T22:22:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T06:22:22","slug":"quantum-internet-the-next-global-network-is-already-being-laid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/quantum-internet-the-next-global-network-is-already-being-laid","title":{"rendered":"Quantum internet: the next global network is already being laid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-internet-the-next-global-network-is-already-being-laid.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/profiles\/harun-siljak-952750\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Harun \u0160iljak<\/a>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/institutions\/trinity-college-dublin-701\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trinity College Dublin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Google reported a remarkable breakthrough towards the end of 2019. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586%20019%201666%205\">company claimed<\/a> to have achieved something called <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-are-scientists-so-excited-about-a-recently-claimed-quantum-computing-milestone-124082\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">quantum supremacy<\/a>, using a new type of \u201cquantum\u201d computer to perform a benchmark test in 200 seconds. This was in stark contrast to the 10,000 years that would supposedly have been needed by a state-of-the-art conventional supercomputer to complete the same test.<\/p>\n<p>Despite <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/google-and-ibm-are-at-odds-over-quantum-supremacy-an-expert-explains-what-it-really-means-125827\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IBM\u2019s claim<\/a> that its supercomputer, with a little optimisation, could solve the task in a matter of days, Google\u2019s announcement made it clear that we are entering a new era of incredible computational power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harun \u0160iljak, Trinity College Dublin Google reported a remarkable breakthrough towards the end of 2019. The company claimed to have achieved something called quantum supremacy, using a new type of \u201cquantum\u201d computer to perform a benchmark test in 200 seconds. This was in stark contrast to the 10,000 years that would supposedly have been needed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,1617,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-quantum-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115844","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}