{"id":205713,"date":"2025-02-06T08:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/quantum-algorithm-distributed-across-multiple-processors-for-the-first-time-paving-the-way-to-quantum-supercomputers"},"modified":"2025-02-06T08:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:22:06","slug":"quantum-algorithm-distributed-across-multiple-processors-for-the-first-time-paving-the-way-to-quantum-supercomputers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/quantum-algorithm-distributed-across-multiple-processors-for-the-first-time-paving-the-way-to-quantum-supercomputers","title":{"rendered":"Quantum algorithm distributed across multiple processors for the first time\u2014paving the way to quantum supercomputers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-algorithm-distributed-across-multiple-processors-for-the-first-time-paving-the-way-to-quantum-supercomputers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a milestone that brings quantum computing tangibly closer to large-scale practical use, scientists at Oxford University Physics have demonstrated the first instance of distributed quantum computing.<\/p>\n<p>Using a photonic network interface, they successfully linked two separate quantum processors to form a single, fully connected quantum computer, paving the way to tackling computational challenges previously out of reach. The results were published on 5 Feb in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-08404-x\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nature.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough addresses quantum\u2019s \u2018scalability problem\u2019: a quantum computer powerful enough to be industry-disrupting would have to be capable of processing millions of qubits. Packing all these processors in a single device, however, would require a machine of an immense size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a milestone that brings quantum computing tangibly closer to large-scale practical use, scientists at Oxford University Physics have demonstrated the first instance of distributed quantum computing. Using a photonic network interface, they successfully linked two separate quantum processors to form a single, fully connected quantum computer, paving the way to tackling computational challenges previously [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1617,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205713","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=205713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}