New quantum computing hardware sorts ions for computation
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Okay but, I have to ask quantum computers...
"What would you say... you do here?"
"What would you say... you do here?"
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I work in this field, and this is huge generalization:
It's more common to use the electronic spins of the atoms.
It's more common to use the electronic spins of the atoms.
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That is a good analogy. IMHO ion-trap and neutral-atom quantum computers have the potential to be commercially viable before anyone else, thanks to the quality of the qubits mentioned in the article, but the inherently slow clock cycle is probably going to kill both of them in the long term. Which QC is going to kill them—and whether it will be any of the existing players—are completely different questions.
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Always find these stories both fascinating and humbling. There are some very bright cookies out there.
"But doing so will require a mastery of controlling the flow of ions through four-way intersections."
Close your eyes and gun it. It's gotten me this far...
"But doing so will require a mastery of controlling the flow of ions through four-way intersections."
Close your eyes and gun it. It's gotten me this far...
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I think that the first quote would have been more clearly stated as:
With the computing medium being the individual atoms, rather than the hardware controlling them.
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Yeah, the real point that the article was trying to make—but didn’t spend enough words on—is that the laws of physics guarantees that atomic/ionic qubits are perfectly identical in the sense that quantum mechanics has literally no way of telling any two qubits apart other than from their locations and velocities; whereas qubits that are manufactured by e.g. fabbing on silicon substrates aren’t.
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Yeah, this makes sense after re-reading it with the right context. I knew I had to be missing something, since I'm certainly not anything remotely close to an expert in this field. One of the best things about Ars is the community has many experts in many fields, so I get to learn. So thanks for helping with that.
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I love reading articles like this but my quantumly miniscule brain understands very little of it. Then a flash of inspiration and it goes again.
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What sizes are we talking here for the ring and leg thing? How far are the ions moved?
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My first thought exactly. Their roadmap takes the density substantially further than was seen with any commercial bubble memory products I'm familiar with. I had a project that successfully demonstrated technical feasibility to replace a low-density magnetic tape system back in the 80s before Intel canceled their product.
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I've updated the sentence to hopefully make it more clear.Yeah, this makes sense after re-reading it with the right context. I knew I had to be missing something, since I'm certainly not anything remotely close to an expert in this field. One of the best things about Ars is the community has many experts in many fields, so I get to learn. So thanks for helping with that.
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How soon can we set up a constellation of these in space. My investors want to know...
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Sigh! The tech behind it makes my head hurt.
In the end, all this effort will only yield another computer system which will run an oversized OS that'll be monetized to surveil us, while downloading or creating tik-tok videos, porn, & e-mail.
In the end, all this effort will only yield another computer system which will run an oversized OS that'll be monetized to surveil us, while downloading or creating tik-tok videos, porn, & e-mail.
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Thanks! I may have simply been insufficiently caffeinated too, though, in all fairness.
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Forgiving my vast ignorance of how they're actually moving these ions around:
Couldn't they use a "traffic circle" type node at junctions with 4 of those diverter electrodes they already use in the Helios intersection?
They already have the travelling in a ring/oval down, based on the H1->Helios models.
Couldn't they use a "traffic circle" type node at junctions with 4 of those diverter electrodes they already use in the Helios intersection?
They already have the travelling in a ring/oval down, based on the H1->Helios models.
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If you need a supercomputer to explain your theory, then your theory doesn't explain anything, it's just pattern matching existing data. The age of probability as an explanation needs to end.
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Everything, everywhere, all the time is probabilistic. It is all built from quantum components. Quantum components are inherently probabilistic.
Reality is under no obligation to meet your prejudices.
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pretty sure that once probability==1 we can no longer count on luck or any such divine consideration to deliver us from our ignorance! it's probably mostly to do with perspective though.
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