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| Chinese researchers claim to have achieved quantum dominance |
Chinese national researchers recently developed a quantum computer that is said to be ten billion times faster than a Google quantum computer, marking a milestone in the field.
According to the research report, it is clear that the Chinese team has done extraordinary things and that quantum computers are expected to perform certain tasks that are difficult on classic computers.
A team of scientists from the Chinese University of Science and Technology built a quantum computer just to prove its efficiency, so that the computer can use light to perform specific tasks.
The reason it is so important is that quantum computers can theoretically solve problems that physicists and computer scientists believe that classical computers would take thousands of years to solve.
This scientific breakthrough came after Google announced that it was the first company to achieve this milestone. In 2018, the company said it had developed the first machine that could demonstrate the benefits of a quantum computer.
Google claims to have created a quantum computer that can perform tasks that traditional computers cannot do, or tasks that cannot be completed in a reasonable time.
According to Google, its system, including a quantum processor called Sycamore, can solve some of the problems that supercomputers cannot solve.
In 2019, Sycamore processor completed a task in 200 seconds, and Google claimed in a research report that this complex supercomputer would last 10,000 years.
IBM was quick to question the claim, saying it could use the algorithm Google used when it announced that it would solve the same problem within days using one of its classic supercomputers.
What China did is very different from what Google did because China basically built a machine that could only run the experiments it describes to prove its supremacy through quantity theory.
In other words, the Chinese machine does not actually solve a problem, bringing the Chinese machine closer to a nominal computer.
On the other hand, Google's machine is programmable and could theoretically be modified to solve one or more problems.
Different laboratories building quantum computers around the world use different methods. While the field is promising, we are still taking the first step towards useful quantum computing.
The Chinese method may have led to a breakthrough in modern science, but as Professor Lu Chaoyang, who led the experiment, told the Financial Times, the creation of a quantum computer is a race between humans and nature, not between countries.