{"id":251249,"date":"2018-03-06T10:33:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T08:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=251249"},"modified":"2018-03-06T10:37:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T08:37:08","slug":"google-unveils-72-qubit-quantum-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/251249-google-unveils-72-qubit-quantum-computer.html","title":{"rendered":"Google unveils 72-qubit quantum computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has unveiled its new <a href=\"https:\/\/research.googleblog.com\/2018\/03\/a-preview-of-bristlecone-googles-new.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Bristlecone quantum computer<\/strong><\/a>, which comprises 72 qubits while maintaining low error rates.<\/p>\n<p>Google said its Bristlecone chip demonstrates 1% error rates for readout, 0.1% for single-qubit gates, and 0.6% for two-qubit gates.<\/p>\n<p>The processor aims to achieve quantum supremacy in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum supremacy refers to the ability of a quantum computer to perform well-defined computational tasks better then advanced classical computers, without error correction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe Bristlecone would then be a compelling proof-of-principle for building larger-scale quantum computers,&#8221; said Google.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/250827-google-launches-new-job-search-features-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google launches new job search features in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has unveiled its Bristlecone quantum computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":251251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[49265,167,9245],"class_list":["post-251249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-bristlecone","tag-google","tag-quantum-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251269,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251249\/revisions\/251269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}