{"id":20003,"date":"2015-12-14T22:47:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T06:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/scott-aaronson-on-googles-new-quantum-computing-paper"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:17:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:17:46","slug":"scott-aaronson-on-googles-new-quantum-computing-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/scott-aaronson-on-googles-new-quantum-computing-paper","title":{"rendered":"Scott Aaronson on Google\u2019s new quantum-computing paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scott-aaronson-on-googles-new-quantum-computing-paper.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2010, a Canadian company called D-Wave announced that it had begun production of what it called the world\u2019s first commercial quantum computer, which was based on theoretical work done at MIT. Quantum computers promise to solve some problems significantly faster than classical computers\u2014and in at least one case, exponentially faster. In 2013, a consortium including Google and NASA bought one of D-Wave\u2019s machines.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, critics have argued that it\u2019s unclear whether the D-Wave machine is actually harnessing quantum phenomena to perform its calculations, and if it is, whether it offers any advantages over classical computers. But this week, a group of Google researchers <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2015-12-google-explore-quantum-annealing-advantages.html\">released a paper<\/a> claiming that in their experiments, a quantum algorithm running on their D-Wave machine was 100 million times faster than a comparable classical algorithm.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Aaronson, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, has been following the D-Wave story for years. MIT News asked him to help make sense of the Google researchers\u2019 new paper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-12-scott-aaronson-google-quantum-computing-paper.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2010, a Canadian company called D-Wave announced that it had begun production of what it called the world\u2019s first commercial quantum computer, which was based on theoretical work done at MIT. Quantum computers promise to solve some problems significantly faster than classical computers\u2014and in at least one case, exponentially faster. In 2013, a consortium [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20003","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\/20003","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69018,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20003\/revisions\/69018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}