{"id":182174,"date":"2024-02-06T20:22:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T02:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/ibm-and-ionq-researchers-design-classical-algorithm-to-tackle-recent-harvard-led-studys-computational-task"},"modified":"2024-02-06T20:22:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T02:22:50","slug":"ibm-and-ionq-researchers-design-classical-algorithm-to-tackle-recent-harvard-led-studys-computational-task","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/ibm-and-ionq-researchers-design-classical-algorithm-to-tackle-recent-harvard-led-studys-computational-task","title":{"rendered":"IBM and IonQ Researchers Design Classical Algorithm to Tackle Recent Harvard-Led Study\u2019s Computational Task"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ibm-and-ionq-researchers-design-classical-algorithm-to-tackle-recent-harvard-led-studys-computational-task2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite the Harvard 48 logical #qubits paper is perhaps the biggest leap in #quantum technologies, still the final circuit is classically simulable.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Politics makes strange bedfellows, apparently so does quantum benchmarking.<\/p>\n<p>In a surprising development, IBM Quantum and IonQ researchers teamed up to reveal an alternative classical simulation algorithm for an impressive error correction study conducted by a Harvard and QuEra team and published recently in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-023-06927-3\">Nature<\/a>. IBM is a leader in superconducting quantum computers, while IonQ is noted as a pioneer in trapped ion devices.<\/p>\n<p>The IBM-IonQ team <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2402.03211.pdf\">reports in ArXiv<\/a> that their classical algorithm accomplished the same computational task that was performed by the 48-qubit quantum setup in that Nature study, in a mere 0.00257947 seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the Harvard 48 logical #qubits paper is perhaps the biggest leap in #quantum technologies, still the final circuit is classically simulable. Politics makes strange bedfellows, apparently so does quantum benchmarking. In a surprising development, IBM Quantum and IonQ researchers teamed up to reveal an alternative classical simulation algorithm for an impressive error correction study [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182174","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\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}