{"id":26730,"date":"2016-06-09T22:47:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T05:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/google-team-predicts-quantum-computing-supremacy-over-classical-computing-around-2018-with-a-40-qubit-universal-quantum-computer"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:15:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:15:46","slug":"google-team-predicts-quantum-computing-supremacy-over-classical-computing-around-2018-with-a-40-qubit-universal-quantum-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/google-team-predicts-quantum-computing-supremacy-over-classical-computing-around-2018-with-a-40-qubit-universal-quantum-computer","title":{"rendered":"Google team predicts quantum computing supremacy over classical computing around 2018 with a 40 qubit universal quantum computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-team-predicts-quantum-computing-supremacy-over-classical-computing-around-2018-with-a-40-qubit-universal-quantum-computer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/google-moves-closer-to-a-universal-quantum-computer-1.20032\" target=\"blank\">Google is to trying to combine the Adiabatic Quantum computing AQC method with the digital approach\u2019s error-correction capabilities.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Google team uses a row of nine solid-state qubits, fashioned from cross-shaped films of aluminium about 400 micrometres from tip to tip. These are deposited onto a sapphire surface. The researchers cool the aluminium to 0.02 degrees kelvin, turning the metal into a superconductor with no electrical resistance. Information can then be encoded into the qubits in their superconducting state.<\/p>\n<p>The interactions between neighboring qubits are controlled by \u2018logic gates\u2019 that steer the qubits digitally into a state that encodes the solution to a problem. As a demonstration, the researchers instructed their array to simulate a row of magnetic atoms with coupled spin states \u2014 a problem thoroughly explored in condensed-matter physics. They could then look at the qubits to determine the lowest-energy collective state of the spins that the atoms represented.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/06\/google-team-predicts-quantum-computing.html\">http:\/\/nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/06\/google-team-predicts-quantum-computing.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is to trying to combine the Adiabatic Quantum computing AQC method with the digital approach\u2019s error-correction capabilities. The Google team uses a row of nine solid-state qubits, fashioned from cross-shaped films of aluminium about 400 micrometres from tip to tip. These are deposited onto a sapphire surface. The researchers cool the aluminium to 0.02 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26730","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61559,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26730\/revisions\/61559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}