{"id":31314,"date":"2016-10-22T09:46:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T16:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/stanford-created-scalable-optical-quantum-annealing-computer-using-special-lasers-and-electrical-circuits"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:20:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:20:56","slug":"stanford-created-scalable-optical-quantum-annealing-computer-using-special-lasers-and-electrical-circuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/stanford-created-scalable-optical-quantum-annealing-computer-using-special-lasers-and-electrical-circuits","title":{"rendered":"Stanford created scalable optical quantum annealing computer using special lasers and electrical circuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stanford-created-scalable-optical-quantum-annealing-computer-using-special-lasers-and-electrical-circuits.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/2016\/10\/20\/stanford-researchers-create-new-special-purpose-computer\/\" target=\"blank\">An entirely new type of computer that blends optical and electrical processing could get around this impending processing constraint and solve superlarge optimization problems.<\/a> If it can be scaled up, this non-traditional computer could save costs by finding more optimal solutions to problems that have an incredibly high number of possible solutions.<\/p>\n<p>There is a special type of problem \u2013 called a combinatorial optimization problem \u2013 that traditional computers find difficult to solve, even approximately. An example is what\u2019s known as the \u201ctraveling salesman\u201d problem, wherein a salesman has to visit a specific set of cities, each only once, and return to the first city, and the salesman wants to take the most efficient route possible. This problem may seem simple but the number of possible routes increases extremely rapidly as cities are added, and this underlies why the problem is difficult to solve.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/10\/stanford-created-scalable-optical.html\">http:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/10\/stanford-created-scalable-optical.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An entirely new type of computer that blends optical and electrical processing could get around this impending processing constraint and solve superlarge optimization problems. If it can be scaled up, this non-traditional computer could save costs by finding more optimal solutions to problems that have an incredibly high number of possible solutions. There is a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31314","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=31314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59978,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31314\/revisions\/59978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}