{"id":44463,"date":"2012-02-28T09:45:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T07:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=44463"},"modified":"2012-02-28T09:57:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T07:57:48","slug":"quantum-computing-breakthrough-by-ibm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/44463-quantum-computing-breakthrough-by-ibm.html","title":{"rendered":"Quantum computing breakthrough by IBM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research into quantum computing by <a title=\"International Business Machines (IBM)\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/361432-International-Business-Machines-(IBM)\">IBM<\/a> scientists, that claims to have made breakthroughs that bring the technology closer to our grasp, is expected to be made public later today (28 February).<\/p>\n<p>Matthias Steffen, manager of IBM&#8217;s experimental quantum computing group, is expected to reveal the research in a presentation at the American Physical Society in Boston.<\/p>\n<p>The research centres on qubits, which are capable of performing millions of computations at a given time<\/p>\n<p>According to IBM, rather than a typical bit &#8211; which only has two states (zero and one) &#8211; a single 250-qubit state would have more information bits than there are particles in the universe.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the research presentation, Steffen explained that, because qubits can be in both the zero and one states at the same time, it opens up a range of possibilities for tasks such as encryption and decryption.<\/p>\n<p>IBM, meanwhile, announced that it had set new records for the error rate in elementary computations while maintaining the integrity of quantum mechanical properties in qubits.<\/p>\n<p>Steffen noted that quantum systems are very delicate. \u201cThe one state is usually encoded in the excited state of a quantum system&#8230;that can decay like an atom can emit a photon. That&#8217;s an error when it happens to our qubit. The frequency that errors occur, limit your device&#8217;s performance. If errors are few and far between, you can implement error correction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>IBM has reached a point where the error rate is at a significant low, and because of this, the company is close to being in a position where it can take five or 10 qubits together and begin to perform elementary operations, Steffan concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Cnet news site\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13772_3-57386317-52\/ibm-claims-huge-strides-in-quantum-computing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at IBM claim to have made breakthroughs which demonstrate full-scale quantum computing is within reach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":28115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[835,9249,9245,9247],"class_list":["post-44463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-ibm","tag-matthias-steffen","tag-quantum-computing","tag-qubit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44463"}],"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\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44477,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44463\/revisions\/44477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}