{"id":96783,"date":"2019-09-28T20:43:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T03:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/this-new-chip-could-bridge-the-gap-between-classical-and-quantum-computing"},"modified":"2019-09-28T20:43:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T03:43:42","slug":"this-new-chip-could-bridge-the-gap-between-classical-and-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/this-new-chip-could-bridge-the-gap-between-classical-and-quantum-computing","title":{"rendered":"This New Chip Could Bridge The Gap Between Classical And Quantum Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-new-chip-could-bridge-the-gap-between-classical-and-quantum-computing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/ibm-unveils-a-quantum-computer-that-will-be-available-to-businesses\">Quantum computers<\/a> exist today, although they\u2019re limited, cut-down versions of what we hope fully blown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/quantum-computers\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"quantum computers\">quantum computers<\/a> are going to be able to do in the future.<\/p>\n<p>But now, researchers have developed hardware for a \u2018probabilistic computer\u2019 \u2013 a device that might be able to bridge the gap between genuine quantum computers and the standard PCs and Macs we have today.<\/p>\n<p>The special trick that a probabilistic computer can do is to solve quantum problems without actually going quantum, as it were. It does this using a p-bit, which the team behind this research <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/releases\/2019\/Q3\/poor-mans-qubit-can-solve-quantum-problems-without-going-quantum.html\">describes as<\/a> a \u201cpoor man\u2019s qubit\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum computers exist today, although they\u2019re limited, cut-down versions of what we hope fully blown quantum computers are going to be able to do in the future. But now, researchers have developed hardware for a \u2018probabilistic computer\u2019 \u2013 a device that might be able to bridge the gap between genuine quantum computers and the standard [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96783","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\/96783","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=96783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}