{"id":85882,"date":"2018-12-16T08:04:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T16:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/a-new-type-of-quantum-computer-has-smashed-every-record"},"modified":"2018-12-16T08:04:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T16:04:19","slug":"a-new-type-of-quantum-computer-has-smashed-every-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/a-new-type-of-quantum-computer-has-smashed-every-record","title":{"rendered":"A new type of quantum computer has smashed every record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-type-of-quantum-computer-has-smashed-every-record2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>IonQ was founded on a gamble that \u2018trapped ion quantum\u2019 computing could outperform the silicon-based quantum computers that Google and others are building. As of right now, <a href=\"https:\/\/ionq.co\/news\/december-11-2018\">it does<\/a>. IonQ has constructed a quantum computer that can perform calculations on a 79-qubit array, beating the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/73576-meet-bristlecone-google-quantum-processor-could-achieve-supremacy.html\">previous king Google\u2019s efforts<\/a> by 7 qubits.<\/p>\n<p>Their error rates are also the <a href=\"https:\/\/quantumcomputingreport.com\/scorecards\/qubit-quality\/\">best in the business<\/a>, with their single-qubit error rate at 99.97% while the nearest competitors are around the 99.5 mark, and a two-qubit error rate of 99.3% when most competitors are beneath 95%. But how does it compare to regular computers?<\/p>\n<p>According to IonQ, in the kinds of workloads that quantum computers are being built for, it\u2019s already overtaking them. The Bernstein-Vazirani Algorithm, a benchmark IonQ is hoping will take off, tests a computer\u2019s ability to determine a single encoded number (called an oracle) when the computer can only ask a single yes\/no question.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/77887-new-type-quantum-computer-has-smashed-every-record.html\">https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/77887-new-type-quantum-compute...ecord.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IonQ was founded on a gamble that \u2018trapped ion quantum\u2019 computing could outperform the silicon-based quantum computers that Google and others are building. As of right now, it does. IonQ has constructed a quantum computer that can perform calculations on a 79-qubit array, beating the previous king Google\u2019s efforts by 7 qubits. Their error rates [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1523,41,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computing","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85882","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}