This is the core of a new quantum computer attached to Leiden Cryogenics dilution fridge, ready to begin a cool down to 0.005 degrees above absolute zero… about 500x colder than the coldest place in remote outer space..
For those who missed the earlier puzzle, the Canadians at D-Wave Systems plan to unveil it on Feb 13…
This quantum computer employs the resources of 65,536 parallel universes to compute answers in a fundamentally new way.
And this is just the beginning. There appears to be a Moore’s Law-like doubling in the number of solid state entangled qubits over time. It is early still, like when Moore made his first observation in 1965.
I first became interested in quantum computing when I read Oxford Professor David Deutsch’s Fabric of Reality: “quantum computers can efficiently render every physically possible quantum environment, even when vast numbers of universes are interacting. Quantum computers can also efficiently solve certain mathematical problems, such as factorization, which are classically intractable, and can implement types of cryptography which are classically impossible. Quantum computation is a qualitatively new way of harnessing nature.” (p.221)
Or from my first blog on the subject: “Quantum computers have the potential to solve problems that would take a classical computer longer than the age of the universe.”
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