Do usable universal quantum computers exist today? If you follow the recent press releases, you might believe that the answer is "yes", with IBM announcing a 50 qubit quantum computer and Google promoting its Bristlecone architecture with up to 72 qubits. Unfortunately, the world is more complicated than this - time to demystify the hype … Continue reading Basics of quantum error correction
In a previous post, we have looked at IBMs Q experience and the graphical composer that you can use to build simple circuits and run them on the IBM hardware. Alternatively, the quantum hardware can be addressed using an API and a Python library called Qiskit which we investigate in this post. Installation and setup … Continue reading Using Python to access IBMs quantum computers
When building your own operating system, the moment when you first write data to a real physical hard disk of a real PC is nothing less than thrilling - after all, making a mistake at this point could mean that you happily overwrite data on your hard drive randomly and wipe out important data on … Continue reading Accessing your hard drive – the OS developers moment of truth
In his famous lecture Simulating Physics with computers, Nobel laureate Richard Feynman argued that non-trivial quantum systems cannot efficiently be simulated on a classical computer, but on a quantum computer - a claim which is widely considered to be one of the cornerstones in the development of quantum computing. Time to ask whether a universal … Continue reading Quantum simulation
