{"id":216378,"date":"2025-06-21T06:22:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/scientists-demonstrate-unconditional-exponential-quantum-scaling-advantage-using-two-127-qubit-computers"},"modified":"2025-06-21T06:22:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:22:58","slug":"scientists-demonstrate-unconditional-exponential-quantum-scaling-advantage-using-two-127-qubit-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/scientists-demonstrate-unconditional-exponential-quantum-scaling-advantage-using-two-127-qubit-computers","title":{"rendered":"Scientists demonstrate unconditional exponential quantum scaling advantage using two 127-qubit computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-demonstrate-unconditional-exponential-quantum-scaling-advantage-using-two-127-qubit-computers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum computers have the potential to speed up computation, help design new medicines, break codes, and discover exotic new materials\u2014but that\u2019s only when they are truly functional.<\/p>\n<p>One key thing that gets in the way: noise or the errors that are produced during computations on a quantum machine\u2014which in fact makes them less powerful than <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/classical+computers\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">classical computers <\/a>\u2014until recently.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Lidar, holder of the Viterbi Professorship in Engineering and Professor of Electrical &amp; Computer Engineering at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, has been iterating on <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+error+correction\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum error correction<\/a>, and in a new study along with collaborators at USC and Johns Hopkins, has been able to demonstrate a quantum exponential scaling advantage, using two 127-qubit IBM Quantum Eagle processor-powered quantum computers, over the cloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum computers have the potential to speed up computation, help design new medicines, break codes, and discover exotic new materials\u2014but that\u2019s only when they are truly functional. One key thing that gets in the way: noise or the errors that are produced during computations on a quantum machine\u2014which in fact makes them less powerful than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,38,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-engineering","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216378","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=216378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}