Posts tagged Bits of Quantum
Quantum Computational Supremacy
- 31 October 2019
Last week Google and collaborators published a paper in which they claim to have achieved Quantum Supremacy , one of the major milestones in quantum computing. The idea of quantum supremacy is to use a programmable quantum device to perform a task that is out-of-reach for any classical computer Google claims to have solved a problem in seconds that would take tens of thousands of years on a state of the art supercomputer. The quantum supremacy experiment has been a long-standing milestone in the field of quantum computation, and as such, skepticism has arised; soon after publication of the article a group in IBM research has challenged the results [1].
Why turning a ket into a cat may or may not be a good idea
- 17 April 2017
People often ask me what I do. There is a lot of things I can talk about: why is a quantum computer interesting or useful , or what do I actually do during my day. But quite often people end up asking a confused question about this curious story of an undead cat. In this blog post I will try to shed some light on this case as well as delve into the question of why we use these kind of stories.
