{"id":97821,"date":"2019-10-25T11:42:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T18:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/what-googles-quantum-supremacy-means-for-the-future-of-computing"},"modified":"2019-10-25T11:42:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T18:42:59","slug":"what-googles-quantum-supremacy-means-for-the-future-of-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/what-googles-quantum-supremacy-means-for-the-future-of-computing","title":{"rendered":"What Google\u2019s \u2018quantum supremacy\u2019 means for the future of computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-googles-quantum-supremacy-means-for-the-future-of-computing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time ever, a quantum computer has performed a computational task that would be essentially impossible for a conventional computer to complete, according to a team from Google.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists and engineers from the company\u2019s lab in Santa Barbara announced the milestone in a report published Wednesday in the journal <i>Nature<\/i>. They said their machine was able to finish its job in just 200 seconds\u2014and that the world\u2019s most powerful supercomputers would need 10,000 years to accomplish the same task.<\/p>\n<p>The task itself, which involved executing a randomly chosen sequence of instructions, does not have any particular practical uses. But experts say the achievement is still significant as a demonstration of the future promise of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+computing\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum computing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time ever, a quantum computer has performed a computational task that would be essentially impossible for a conventional computer to complete, according to a team from Google. Scientists and engineers from the company\u2019s lab in Santa Barbara announced the milestone in a report published Wednesday in the journal Nature. They said their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97821","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}