The world's strongest! Google's R&D Quantum Computer Will Be Available Next Year

Somewhere in California, Google is undertaking a business that may be able to open up a new era of computers in the futureâ€”a super quantum computer that can surpass the performance of all the traditional computers today. According to New Scientist Google is likely to launch this super quantum computer by the end of next year - a lot earlier than expected .

A quantum computer is a physical device that follows the laws of quantum mechanics and performs high-speed computation, storage, and processing of quantum information. Because it uses overlapping quantum unit bits, allowing 0 and 1 to occur simultaneously when processing data, so its advantages are also obvious: the processing speed is amazing, billions of times faster than traditional computers.

Since the concept of quantum computers began in the 1980s, researchers have been chasing quantum computers that can be used to solve any computational problem and have achieved varying degrees of success.

Both IBM and Canada's D-Wave have created functional quantum computers through different means, but their devices cannot expand qubits.

In addition, most of the current quantum computing is only in the laboratory, and Google wants to be the first company to develop a quantum computer.

Recently, the research results published by the Google team showed that the development of high-performance quantum computers may be less difficult than previously expected. According to several scientists who understand the progress of Google research, in some calculations, quantum chips containing 50 qubits are already more powerful than traditional supercomputers, and it has not been difficult to develop such computers in two to three years.

It is no longer a secret that Google wants to build a computer beyond the traditional sense. In order to realize the dream of completing the quantum computer as soon as possible, Google is removing obstacles for it.

In 2013, Google tested the D-Wave Quantum Computer, hoping to find out how it can improve search capabilities and artificial intelligence.

In 2014, Google recruited John Martinis, a renowned physicist at the University of California, to develop his own superconducting qubits.

In June of this year, Google published a paper introducing a general-purpose quantum computer model.

In July of this year, Google published another paper and named their plan as "Quantum Supremacy", quantum hegemony ( link address ). In the paper, Google demonstrated its vision of establishing the world's first ultra-high-performance quantum computer, and stated that this computer can accomplish tasks that cannot be accomplished by traditional computers.

Now, turning this model into a reality seems to be just around the corner. â€œGoogle is clearly already the leader in the quantum computer world. There is no objection to this.â€ Researcher Simon Devitt of the Center for Emerging Material Research in Japan said in an interview with New Scientist. â€œAt this point, Google won. If Google does not succeed in the end, there must be something wrong with it."

In addition, Google Quantum Artificial Intelligence Labs also announced that its quantum computer D-Wave2X runs 100 million times faster than analog devices running on traditional computer chips. "The pace of development in this area goes far beyond our expectations," said Troyer , a researcher from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology . "Now, it is time to move quantum computers from theory to reality."

Via newscientist