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Re:Intel Delivers 17-Qubit Superconducting Chip by heavenlyblue on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @12:40PM (#15500604)
You are not supposed to reproduce classical systems on a quantum computer just the same way you're not supposed to reproduce electric circuits on a classical computer, even though it's made out of them.

For me myself one of the easiest concepts to understand was quantum annealing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_annealing). It does not mean that's the strongest point of quantum computers, but it's a nice way to start.

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Re:Intel Delivers 17-Qubit Superconducting Chip by alanbernstein on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @02:20PM (#15501550)
I get where you're coming from with that analogy, but there is probably a better way to put it. Circuit simulation is a long-time application of computers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPICE).
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Re:Intel Delivers 17-Qubit Superconducting Chip by heavenlyblue on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @05:24PM (#15503285)
You're down the Turing machine rabbit hole - I implied you could do that. Just the same way you could simulate a processor using an another processor - it's just not as efficient.

By the way - you could as well simulate a quantum computer on a classical computer; it'd just be incredibly slow.

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