{"id":199197,"date":"2024-11-10T14:25:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T20:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/the-incredible-power-of-quantum-memory"},"modified":"2024-11-10T14:25:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T20:25:46","slug":"the-incredible-power-of-quantum-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/the-incredible-power-of-quantum-memory","title":{"rendered":"The Incredible Power of Quantum Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-incredible-power-of-quantum-memory2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The combined results also speak to a more fundamental goal. For decades, the quantum computing community has been trying to establish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/physicists-finally-find-a-problem-only-quantum-computers-can-do-20240312\/\">quantum advantage <\/a>\u2014a task that quantum computers can do that a classical one would struggle with. Usually, researchers understand quantum advantage to mean that a quantum computer can do the task in far fewer steps.<\/p>\n<p>The new papers show that quantum memory lets a quantum computer perform a task not necessarily with fewer steps, but with less data. As a result, researchers believe this in itself could be a way to prove quantum advantage. \u201cIt allows us to, in the more near term, already achieve that kind of quantum advantage,\u201d said <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/hsinyuan-huang.github.io\/\" class=\"\"  href=\"https:\/\/hsinyuan-huang.github.io\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hsin-Yuan Huang<\/a>, a physicist at Google Quantum AI.<\/p>\n<p>But researchers are excited about the practical benefits too, as the new results make it easier for researchers to understand complex quantum systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The combined results also speak to a more fundamental goal. For decades, the quantum computing community has been trying to establish quantum advantage \u2014a task that quantum computers can do that a classical one would struggle with. Usually, researchers understand quantum advantage to mean that a quantum computer can do the task in far fewer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199197","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}