{"id":175332,"date":"2023-11-02T21:23:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T02:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/late-not-great-imperfect-timekeeping-places-significant-limit-on-quantum-computers"},"modified":"2023-11-02T21:23:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T02:23:53","slug":"late-not-great-imperfect-timekeeping-places-significant-limit-on-quantum-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/late-not-great-imperfect-timekeeping-places-significant-limit-on-quantum-computers","title":{"rendered":"Late not great\u2014imperfect timekeeping places significant limit on quantum computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/late-not-great-imperfect-timekeeping-places-significant-limit-on-quantum-computers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research from a consortium of quantum physicists, led by Trinity College Dublin\u2019s Dr. Mark Mitchison, shows that imperfect timekeeping places a fundamental limit to quantum computers and their applications. The team claims that even tiny timing errors add up to place a significant impact on any large-scale algorithm, posing another problem that must eventually be solved if quantum computers are to fulfill the lofty aspirations that society has for them.<\/p>\n<p>The paper is <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.131.160204\">published<\/a> in the journal Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n<p>It is difficult to imagine modern life without clocks to help organize our daily schedules; with a digital clock in every person\u2019s smartphone or watch, we take precise timekeeping for granted\u2014although that doesn\u2019t stop people from being late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from a consortium of quantum physicists, led by Trinity College Dublin\u2019s Dr. Mark Mitchison, shows that imperfect timekeeping places a fundamental limit to quantum computers and their applications. The team claims that even tiny timing errors add up to place a significant impact on any large-scale algorithm, posing another problem that must eventually [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41,1512,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science","category-mobile-phones","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175332","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=175332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}