New silicon structure opens the gate to quantum computers

Re:New silicon structure opens the gate to quantum computers by himom on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @08:46PM (#15911325)

There is no added Turing power to QC over CC. Turing complete is Turing complete. Think of QC as a coprocessor for certain classes of algorithms like prime factorization.

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Re:New silicon structure opens the gate to quantum computers by lisper on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @01:55AM (#15912541)

With exponential speedup. That's the big deal.

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Re:New silicon structure opens the gate to quantum computers by visarga on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @05:04AM (#15913271)

We don't know how to extract these benefits yet for real problems.

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