Google'S quantum dawn

• Autores: Jacob Aron
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3157-3158, 2017, pág. 39
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • If all goes to plan in 2018, Google will unveil a device capable of performing calculations that no other computer on the planet can tackle. The quantum computing era is upon us. Well, sort of. Google is set to achieve quantum supremacy, the long-awaited first demonstration of quantum computers' ability to outperform ordinary machines at certain tasks. Regular computing bits can be in one of two states: 0 or 1. Their quantum cousins, qubits, get a performance boost by storing a mixture of both states at the same time. Google's planned device has just 49 qubits--hardly enough to threaten the world's high-speed supercomputers.