{"id":178826,"date":"2023-12-21T23:23:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T05:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/utility-scale-quantum-program-advances-toward-prototyping"},"modified":"2023-12-21T23:23:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T05:23:51","slug":"utility-scale-quantum-program-advances-toward-prototyping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/utility-scale-quantum-program-advances-toward-prototyping","title":{"rendered":"Utility-Scale Quantum Program Advances Toward Prototyping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/utility-scale-quantum-program-advances-toward-prototyping2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DARPA\u2019s Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing (US2QC) program seeks to determine whether an underexplored approach to quantum computing can achieve utility-scale operation \u2014 meaning its computational value exceeds its cost \u2014 faster than conventional predictions.<\/p>\n<p>In the initial phase, each company presented a design concept describing their plans to create a utility-scale quantum computer. In the follow-on phase, selected performers aim to take their concepts to the next level. Now, US2QC\u2019s key goal centers on developing and defending a system design for a fault-tolerant prototype, a smaller-scale quantum computer demonstrating that a utility-scale quantum computer can be constructed as designed and operated as intended.<\/p>\n<p>This prototype system design will identify all required components and sub-systems and establish their minimum performance requirements. A DARPA-led government test and evaluation team consisting of technical experts will evaluate design viability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DARPA\u2019s Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing (US2QC) program seeks to determine whether an underexplored approach to quantum computing can achieve utility-scale operation \u2014 meaning its computational value exceeds its cost \u2014 faster than conventional predictions. In the initial phase, each company presented a design concept describing their plans to create a utility-scale quantum computer. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1490,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-government","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178826","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=178826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}