{"id":164093,"date":"2023-05-18T00:23:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T05:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/team-demonstrates-quantum-advantage-on-optimization-problems-with-a-5000-qubit-programmable-spin-glass"},"modified":"2023-05-18T00:23:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T05:23:10","slug":"team-demonstrates-quantum-advantage-on-optimization-problems-with-a-5000-qubit-programmable-spin-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/team-demonstrates-quantum-advantage-on-optimization-problems-with-a-5000-qubit-programmable-spin-glass","title":{"rendered":"Team demonstrates quantum advantage on optimization problems with a 5,000-qubit programmable spin glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/team-demonstrates-quantum-advantage-on-optimization-problems-with-a-5000-qubit-programmable-spin-glass.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the past decades, researchers and companies worldwide have been trying to develop increasingly advanced quantum computers. The key objective of their efforts is to create systems that will outperform classical computers on specific tasks, which is also known as realizing \u201cquantum advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A research team at D-Wave Quantum Inc., a Canadian quantum computing company, recently created a new quantum computing system that outperforms classical computing systems on <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/optimization\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">optimization<\/a> problems. This system, introduced in a paper in <i>Nature<\/i>, is based on a programmable spin glass with 5,000 qubits (the quantum equivalents of bits in classical computing).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis work validates the original hypothesis behind <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+annealing\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum annealing<\/a>, coming full circle from some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.284.5415.779\">seminal experiments conducted in the 1990s<\/a>,\u201d Andrew D. King, one of the researchers who carried out the study, told Phys.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past decades, researchers and companies worldwide have been trying to develop increasingly advanced quantum computers. The key objective of their efforts is to create systems that will outperform classical computers on specific tasks, which is also known as realizing \u201cquantum advantage.\u201d A research team at D-Wave Quantum Inc., a Canadian quantum computing company, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164093","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\/164093","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}