{"id":130798,"date":"2021-11-18T07:23:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T15:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/this-new-startup-has-built-a-record-breaking-256-qubit-quantum-computer"},"modified":"2021-11-18T07:23:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T15:23:48","slug":"this-new-startup-has-built-a-record-breaking-256-qubit-quantum-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/this-new-startup-has-built-a-record-breaking-256-qubit-quantum-computer","title":{"rendered":"This new startup has built a record-breaking 256-qubit quantum computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-new-startup-has-built-a-record-breaking-256-qubit-quantum-computer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At long last, physicists from Harvard and MIT have found the killer application for quantum computing: a Mario Bros. GIF made from qubits. The qubits (quantum bits) can also be arranged in a Space Invaders design, or Tetris, or any other shape\u2014your geometrical wish is the qubits\u2019 command.<\/p>\n<p>The GIFs are from QuEra Computing, a Boston startup emerging from stealth, to show off the programmability of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-021-03582-4\" target=\"_blank\">256-qubit quantum simulator <\/a>\u2014a special-purpose quantum computer built for solving certain types of problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At long last, physicists from Harvard and MIT have found the killer application for quantum computing: a Mario Bros. GIF made from qubits. The qubits (quantum bits) can also be arranged in a Space Invaders design, or Tetris, or any other shape\u2014your geometrical wish is the qubits\u2019 command. The GIFs are from QuEra Computing, a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130798","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=130798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}