{"id":125983,"date":"2021-08-07T19:24:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T02:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/scientists-just-simulated-quantum-technology-on-classical-computing-hardware"},"modified":"2021-08-07T19:24:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T02:24:34","slug":"scientists-just-simulated-quantum-technology-on-classical-computing-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/scientists-just-simulated-quantum-technology-on-classical-computing-hardware","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Just Simulated Quantum Technology on Classical Computing Hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-simulated-quantum-technology-on-classical-computing-hardware2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lurking in the background of the quest for true <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/it-s-official-google-and-nasa-claim-quantum-supremacy-in-controversial-world-first\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">quantum supremacy<\/a> hangs an awkward possibility \u2013 hyper-fast number crunching tasks based on quantum trickery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/gil-kalais-argument-against-quantum-computers-20180207\/\">might just be a load of hype<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a pair of physicists from \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and Columbia University in the US have come up with a better way to judge the potential of near-term quantum devices \u2013 by simulating the quantum mechanics they rely upon on more traditional hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Their study made use of <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/355\/6325\/602\">a neural network<\/a> developed by EPFL\u2019s Giuseppe Carleo and his colleague Matthias Troyer back in 2,016 using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/artificial-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"machine learning\">machine learning<\/a> to come up with an approximation of a quantum system tasked with running a specific process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lurking in the background of the quest for true quantum supremacy hangs an awkward possibility \u2013 hyper-fast number crunching tasks based on quantum trickery might just be a load of hype. Now, a pair of physicists from \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and Columbia University in the US have come up with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125983","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=125983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}