{"id":72295,"date":"2017-09-02T00:02:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T07:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/were-about-to-cross-the-quantum-supremacy-limit-in-computing"},"modified":"2017-09-02T00:02:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T07:02:29","slug":"were-about-to-cross-the-quantum-supremacy-limit-in-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/were-about-to-cross-the-quantum-supremacy-limit-in-computing","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re About to Cross The \u2018Quantum Supremacy\u2019 Limit in Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/were-about-to-cross-the-quantum-supremacy-limit-in-computing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/conference.rqc.ru\/\">The 4th International Conference on Quantum Technologies<\/a> held in Moscow last month was supposed to put the spotlight on Google, who were preparing to give a lecture on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/604242\/googles-new-chip-is-a-stepping-stone-to-quantum-computing-supremacy\/\">a 49-qubit quantum computer<\/a> they have in the works.<\/p>\n<p>A morning talk presented by Harvard University\u2019s Mikhail Lukin, however, upstaged that evening\u2019s event with a small announcement of his own \u2013 his team of American and Russian researchers had successfully tested a 51-qubit device, setting a landmark in the race for quantum supremacy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/here-s-what-you-need-to-know-about-quantum-computing\">Quantum computers<\/a> are considered to be part of the next generation in revolutionary technology; devices that make use of the odd \u2018in-between\u2019 states of quantum particles to accelerate the processing power of digital machines.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/google-s-quantum-announcement-overshadowed-by-something-even-bigger\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/google-s-quantum-announcement-ov...ven-bigger<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 4th International Conference on Quantum Technologies held in Moscow last month was supposed to put the spotlight on Google, who were preparing to give a lecture on a 49-qubit quantum computer they have in the works. A morning talk presented by Harvard University\u2019s Mikhail Lukin, however, upstaged that evening\u2019s event with a small announcement [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72295","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\/72295","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=72295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}