50 qubits! Quantum computer research ushered in a milestone

According to IBM's official website, at the recent Computer Industry Summit held by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Dario Gill, vice president of the AI ​​and Quantum Computer Group, announced a milestone: IBM The successful completion and testing of the world's first quantum quantum computer prototype of 50 qubits has taken a crucial step towards validating the "quantum hegemony" of quantum computers over traditional supercomputers. The company also upgraded its existing IBM Q system from 16 qubits to 20 qubits and will open it to customers by the end of this year.

Conventional computers use the digital 1 or 0 state to store information; and quantum computers use qubits, which are superpositions of 0 and 1, to handle more powerful and complex operations in one go. Insiders believe that if the quantum computer with 50 qubits, will exceed the computational power of traditional supercomputers, quantum computers will enter the era of "quantum hegemony", the future can be in the field of chemistry, pharmaceutical research and material science and other fields to carry out practical applications, simulation Atomic chemical reactions and optimizing the supply chain.

IBM has been providing quantum computing services to users on cloud platforms since 2016. The initial IBM Q prototype was only five qubits and was upgraded to 16 qubits in May of this year. In just a year and a half, more than 60,000 users from more than 1,500 universities, 300 high schools and 300 private agencies registered 1.7 million experiments with IBM Q and published more than 35 relevant papers. Jill said the newly upgraded 20-qubit IBM Q system will have a quantum state duration of 50 microseconds up to 90 microseconds, and will also provide higher-fidelity quantum operations and lower error rates.

In addition to hardware development, IBM is also devoted to creating the "ecosystem" of quantum computing by providing a software-processing kit called QISKit that includes video tools to help researchers develop quantum computer applications. By running quantum logic algorithms on real quantum computers, students can experience the advantages of quantum computers in solving practical problems.

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The principle of quantum computing is simple, but most of the prototypes developed so far are single-digit bits that can not be used. The 50-qubit new machine was introduced and the quantum computer could be the gateway to commercial applications. Of course, the quantum state of the duration had to be longer, but not too hard. IBM admirable, it is not eating the capital, but in all areas to explore new possibilities. Innovation is always the main body of the enterprise, IBM is a model.


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