{"id":164002,"date":"2023-05-16T10:23:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T15:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/quantum-computing-algorithm-breakthrough-brings-practical-use-closer-to-reality"},"modified":"2023-05-16T10:23:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T15:23:14","slug":"quantum-computing-algorithm-breakthrough-brings-practical-use-closer-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/quantum-computing-algorithm-breakthrough-brings-practical-use-closer-to-reality","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Computing Algorithm Breakthrough Brings Practical Use Closer to Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-computing-algorithm-breakthrough-brings-practical-use-closer-to-reality2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Out of all common refrains in the world of computing, the phrase \u201c<em>if only software would catch up with hardware\u201d<\/em> would probably rank pretty high. And yet, software does sometimes catch up with hardware. In fact, it seems that this time, <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/new-quantum-computer-algorithm-unlocks-the-power-of-atomic-level-interactions\/\">software can go as far as unlocking quantum computations for classical computers<\/a>. That\u2019s according to researchers with the RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing, Japan, who have <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prxquantum\/abstract\/10.1103\/PRXQuantum.3.040302\">published work<\/a> on an algorithm that significantly accelerates a specific <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/features\/what-is-quantum-computing\">quantum computing<\/a> workload. More significantly, the workload itself \u2014 called <em>time evolution operators<\/em> \u2014 has applications in condensed matter physics and quantum chemistry, two fields that can unlock new worlds within our own.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, an improved algorithm wouldn\u2019t be completely out of the ordinary; updates are everywhere, after all. Every app update, software update, or firmware upgrade is essentially bringing revised code that either solves problems or improves performance (hopefully). And improved algorithms are nice, as anyone with a graphics card from either AMD or NVIDIA can attest. But let\u2019s face it: We\u2019re used to being disappointed with performance updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of all common refrains in the world of computing, the phrase \u201cif only software would catch up with hardware\u201d would probably rank pretty high. And yet, software does sometimes catch up with hardware. In fact, it seems that this time, software can go as far as unlocking quantum computations for classical computers. That\u2019s according [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,41,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164002","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}