On Sat, Aug 6, 2022 at 8:29 AM Benjamin Kaduk <bka...@akamai.com> wrote:
> Current hardware relies on either being very cold, very isolated from the > surroundings, > or both, to avoid unwanted coupling between qbits and the outside world > that causes > decoherence. Achieving the physics in a physical engineering matter is > inherently finicky, > though you can build error-correction and robustness on top of it that > helps. > Yes, the ones I've seen pretty much looked like this isolated and super-cooled one: https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-is-quantum-computing-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-strange-world-of-quantum-computers/ I was offered a job, several years ago, to write APIs for something resembling the pictured quantum computer. I didn't take it, but it wasn't top-secret government work or anything like that. As part of the sell, they of course gave me a tour of the quantum data center (it was neat). It's playing at the margins between theory and engineering practicality, so > the > target is going to change over time. I'm not surprised that this comes > across > as having some level of imprecision. > The idea seems to have unstated assumptions about how far along quantum computers are, and how useful "quantum annoyance" is as a deterrent. I'm not insisting that it's wrong to focus on, but I do find there to be some missing reasoning there. thanks, Rob
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