Run a Quantum Computer

摘要

If you have ever wanted to learn more about quantum computing, now's the time. The quantum processor - housed at the T.J. Watson Research Center in New York - is made up of five superconducting quantum bits. This doesn't sound like much, but IBM plansrnon scaling it up to larger systems, leading to the establishment of a universal quantum computer with a processor having 50 to 100 qubits sometime in the next decade. Eventually, IBM envisions a machine with more than 100,000 physical qubits. Even with only 50 qubits, such a device would be superior to all of today's TOP500 supercomputers.