{"id":27934,"date":"2016-07-17T02:47:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T09:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/primitive-quantum-computers-are-already-outperforming-current-machines"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:05:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:05:56","slug":"primitive-quantum-computers-are-already-outperforming-current-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/primitive-quantum-computers-are-already-outperforming-current-machines","title":{"rendered":"Primitive Quantum Computers Are Already Outperforming Current Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jg8iCnQTLfM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A team has used simple quantum processors to run \u201cquantum walk\u201d algorithms, showing that even primitive quantum computers can outperform the classical variety in certain scenarios\u2014and suggesting that the age of quantum computing may be closer than we imagined.<\/p>\n<p>By now, most readers of <i>Futurism<\/i> are probably pretty well acquainted with the concept (and fantastic promise) of <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/d-wave-computers-may-revolutionary-quantum-computers-tomorrow\/\">quantum computing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For those who aren\u2019t, the idea is fairly (!) simple: Quantum computers exploit three very unusual features that operate at the quantum scale\u2014that electrons can be both particles <i>and<\/i> waves, that objects can be in many places at once, and they can maintain an instantaneous connection even when separated by vast distances (a property called \u201centanglement\u201d).<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/primitive-quantum-computers-already-outperforming-current-machines\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/primitive-quantum-computers-already-outp...-machines\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team has used simple quantum processors to run \u201cquantum walk\u201d algorithms, showing that even primitive quantum computers can outperform the classical variety in certain scenarios\u2014and suggesting that the age of quantum computing may be closer than we imagined. By now, most readers of Futurism are probably pretty well acquainted with the concept (and fantastic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27934","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=27934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61150,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27934\/revisions\/61150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}