Breakthrough in the USA: Google revealed a quantum processor

March 7 2018 18 786 5

The Google division, Quantum AI Lab, has been able to take an important step towards creating a new generation of computers. This step was the new Bristlecone processor, which the company introduced at the American Physical Society on March 5 in Los Angeles.

Until now, the main obstacle to the creation of such devices has been the tendency of quantum computers to tolerate a huge number of errors in the calculation process. It is this problem that Google intends to solve, as well as make the production of quantum computers suitable for the mass market. According to Julian Kelly, head of Google Research, quantum computers based on the Bristlecone processor will leave behind traditional PCs in a number of areas.

In addition to the fact that the new brainchild of Google contains in its rather small volume of 72 qubits, its main advantage is technology correction of quantum errors. The 9-qubit predecessor Bristlecon allowed itself only 1% of errors; in the new processor with eight-fold superiority in qubits, it was possible to maintain this level.

A quantum computer is a computing device that uses the phenomena of quantum mechanics to process and transmit data.

Now these machines are used in a very narrow range of tasks in a limited number of large companies, primarily in cryptography - the science of privacy methods. Communications Industry Researchers analysts predict a significant increase in the quantum computing market by 2023. At the forefront of progress in this regard are IBM and Intel, and among potential consumers are companies such as Samsung, Daimler, Honda, JP Morgan and not only.

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gridasov

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7 March 2018 20: 27

Quantum computers do not allow us to escape from binary logic in mathematical computational processes. Moreover, it is impossible to build a continuous mathematical space on the function of a variable value of a number. To solve these fundamental problems without erroneous mathematical processes, it is necessary to use the function of a constant value of a number. These new properties of a number will allow us to move to logic built on all numbers of the natural series. Therefore, everyone wants to be the first, but the reality is that reality is not an illusion of our fantasies and desires.
Wonder

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8 March 2018 06: 32

From the article, it seems like quantum computers use only to generate random numbers?
1. gridasov
  
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  8 March 2018 12: 37
  
  Not even all mathematicians are able to distinguish what computational processes are and what analysis and modeling of the development of situations are, including the construction of a radial mathematical space of variations. Then and only then can one construct an algorithmic space or construct processes of algorithmic development of mathematical processes. For example, the construction of the same series of prime numbers, uncertain in its final goal and uncertain in the patterns of interaction, can be represented by an algorithmic system and, in general, a spatial system in which the patterns of arrangement of prime numbers in such a space are clearly traced. But a new task is very interesting. If, for example, we know the consequence of what numerical interactions the number Pi is and we know the numerical sequence and can already construct an algorithmic space of interaction of these numbers, then the interaction of what numbers and what phenomenon is a series of prime numbers. Even the first conclusions do not fit into the levels of perception of a modern person.
  1. Wonder
    
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    9 March 2018 02: 24
    
    Is this current quantum computer really suitable for all of this? It seems that he is not able to execute the simplest classical logic, but only generate random numbers.
    1. gridasov
      
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      9 March 2018 11: 12
      
      This is what is surprising, that everyone is moving in a direction, which of course has positive effects, but does not solve the problem, which is designated as the main one. This is to process super-large mathematical data and at the same time choose the optimal direction in the analysis of the development of the process and at the same time not spend so much energy on the transmission of a single pulse. And after all, this is a purely mathematical problem at its core and already from this it will become clear how a multipolar transistor should look like in which any pulse on its polarized parts will express a Number. And in general, it is high time for scientists to understand that analysis as such means that physical processes in their dynamic transformation should be expressed by the work of the system itself, and not by a forced computing mechanism.