Re:IBM Q system in development with working 50 qubit processor
by joe_the_user on Friday November 10, 2017 @03:51PM
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That sentences doesn't say the small 5 and 16 bit computers don't exist.
Edit: if you read the whole link, the key description is:
"IBM’s quantum processor is made up of superconducting transmon qubits, located in a dilution refrigerator at the IBM Research headquarters at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
Users interact with the quantum processor through the quantum circuit model of computation, applying quantum gates on the qubits using a GUI called the quantum composer, writing quantum assembly language code[1] or through a Python API.[2]"
Which is to say you have both a quantum computer and a simulator in IBM schema (which in the cloud 'cause you can't have supercooled chips in your basement), which is as one would expect running "real" quantum computing is going to be more expensive and uncertain now despite the hope it will give vast speed later.
Edit: if you read the whole link, the key description is:
"IBM’s quantum processor is made up of superconducting transmon qubits, located in a dilution refrigerator at the IBM Research headquarters at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
Users interact with the quantum processor through the quantum circuit model of computation, applying quantum gates on the qubits using a GUI called the quantum composer, writing quantum assembly language code[1] or through a Python API.[2]"
Which is to say you have both a quantum computer and a simulator in IBM schema (which in the cloud 'cause you can't have supercooled chips in your basement), which is as one would expect running "real" quantum computing is going to be more expensive and uncertain now despite the hope it will give vast speed later.