{"id":134967,"date":"2022-01-31T00:22:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T08:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/ibm-and-cern-use-quantum-computing-to-hunt-elusive-higgs-boson"},"modified":"2022-01-31T00:22:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T08:22:40","slug":"ibm-and-cern-use-quantum-computing-to-hunt-elusive-higgs-boson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/ibm-and-cern-use-quantum-computing-to-hunt-elusive-higgs-boson","title":{"rendered":"IBM and CERN use quantum computing to hunt elusive Higgs boson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ibm-and-cern-use-quantum-computing-to-hunt-elusive-higgs-boson.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That is not to say that the advantage has been proven yet. The quantum algorithm developed by IBM performed comparably to classical methods on the limited quantum processors that exist today \u2013 but those systems are still in their very early stages.<\/p>\n<p>And with only a small number of qubits, today\u2019s quantum computers are not capable of carrying out computations that are useful. They also remain crippled by the fragility of qubits, which are highly sensitive to environmental changes and are still prone to errors.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, IBM and CERN are banking on future improvements in quantum hardware to demonstrate tangibly, and not only theoretically, that quantum algorithms have an advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is not to say that the advantage has been proven yet. The quantum algorithm developed by IBM performed comparably to classical methods on the limited quantum processors that exist today \u2013 but those systems are still in their very early stages. And with only a small number of qubits, today\u2019s quantum computers are not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,45,41,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-finance","category-information-science","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134967","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}