ANOTHER QUANTUM SUPREMACY?
NOT so long ago, Google announced quantum supremacy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZNEz...) using a state-of-the-art 53-qubit electronic quantum processing chip called “Sycamore” with 500 kilobytes of RAM and 233 megabytes of hard disk space. Quantum supremacy is a benchmark that was set in 2012 by physicist John Preskill at Caltech, meaning a quantum computer can do something that no non-quantum computer can match. Google’s Sycamore processor performed a calculation in 200 seconds that would have taken the world’s most powerful supercomputer 10,000 years to perform.
Recently, however, researchers in China announced quantum supremacy using a photonic array “computer” named “Jiuzhang” that had 76 photons of light traversing a network of 100 channels to perform a calculation in 200 seconds that is estimated to take a non-quantum computer half a billion years to perform. And they did this without sub-zero superconductors (https://www.sciencenews.org/article/n...).
Technically, neither announcement is completely “true,” as a non-quantum computer could have done the calculation. True quantum superiority, according to Preskill’s definition, requires that a non-quantum computer can’t do the calculation irrespective of time. But the take-away point is that the world is fact approaching true quantum superiority while rapidly advancing the technology. In my book, QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016), written with A. G. Hayes, the sixth in his pre-eminent Koski & Falk Thriller series, a quantum computer is necessary to precisely calculate two position in the space-time continuum in order to use the “spooky” effect of quantum simultaneity to instantaneously transfer a small non-living object from one place to another. In the story, the protagonist-scientist Kate Keenan, does China’s quantum computer in the hands of the North Koreans one better, preventing the destruction of the Western and possibly the entire world. With Russia’s help, mind you! Quantum superiority is linked with the Bitcoin sale of large swaths of the USA to the highest criminal bidders. It’s an adventure into a plausible science future (Sci-Fu) that will leave your heart thumping and your hackles rising. Available now as a printed, electronic or audio book!
Quantum Death
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0996325530
“…provide[d] a very unique premise in a genre that, these days, is hard-pressed to come up with anything original.” (Amazon reader review).
Recently, however, researchers in China announced quantum supremacy using a photonic array “computer” named “Jiuzhang” that had 76 photons of light traversing a network of 100 channels to perform a calculation in 200 seconds that is estimated to take a non-quantum computer half a billion years to perform. And they did this without sub-zero superconductors (https://www.sciencenews.org/article/n...).
Technically, neither announcement is completely “true,” as a non-quantum computer could have done the calculation. True quantum superiority, according to Preskill’s definition, requires that a non-quantum computer can’t do the calculation irrespective of time. But the take-away point is that the world is fact approaching true quantum superiority while rapidly advancing the technology. In my book, QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016), written with A. G. Hayes, the sixth in his pre-eminent Koski & Falk Thriller series, a quantum computer is necessary to precisely calculate two position in the space-time continuum in order to use the “spooky” effect of quantum simultaneity to instantaneously transfer a small non-living object from one place to another. In the story, the protagonist-scientist Kate Keenan, does China’s quantum computer in the hands of the North Koreans one better, preventing the destruction of the Western and possibly the entire world. With Russia’s help, mind you! Quantum superiority is linked with the Bitcoin sale of large swaths of the USA to the highest criminal bidders. It’s an adventure into a plausible science future (Sci-Fu) that will leave your heart thumping and your hackles rising. Available now as a printed, electronic or audio book!
Quantum Death
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0996325530
“…provide[d] a very unique premise in a genre that, these days, is hard-pressed to come up with anything original.” (Amazon reader review).
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