{"id":69354,"date":"2017-09-01T06:10:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T10:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=69354"},"modified":"2017-08-31T18:16:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T22:16:42","slug":"quantum-computing-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=69354","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Computing 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum computers may soon be the most powerful data center hardware. Here I review quantum computing concepts, and highlight recent innovations from IBM, D-Wave Systems, Google, Microsoft, Intel and Alibaba.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iYESkqXVWa0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Websites, press releases and articles referred to in the video are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>IBM Q online quantum computer:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/quantumexperience.ng.bluemix.net\/qx\/user-guide\">https:\/\/quantumexperience.ng.bluemix&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>IBM cloud quantum computer press release, May 2016:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www-03.ibm.com\/press\/us\/en\/pressrelease\/49661.wss\">https:\/\/www-03.ibm.com\/press\/us\/en\/pr&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>IBM Q press release, March 2017:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www-03.ibm.com\/press\/us\/en\/pressrelease\/51740.wss\">https:\/\/www-03.ibm.com\/press\/us\/en\/pr&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Latest IBM quantum processors press release, May 2017:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www-03.ibm.com\/press\/us\/en\/pressrelease\/52403.wss\">http:\/\/www-03.ibm.com\/press\/us\/en\/pre&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhysical Review X\u201d technical article on D-Wave 2X performance (1 August 2016): <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prx\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevX.6.031015\">https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prx\/abstract&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNature\u201d article by Google Quantum AI Lab engineers (March 2017):<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/static.googleusercontent.com\/media\/research.google.com\/en\/\/pubs\/archive\/45919.pdf\">https:\/\/static.googleusercontent.com\/&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Station Q: <a href=\"https:\/\/stationq.microsoft.com\/\">https:\/\/stationq.microsoft.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMIT Technology Review\u201d article on Intel silicon-based quantum computing (December 2016):<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/603165\/intel-bets-it-can-turn-everyday-silicon-into-quantum-computings-wonder-material\/\">https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/60&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alibaba quantum computing lab press release (July 2015):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alibabagroup.com\/en\/news\/article?news=p150730\">http:\/\/www.alibabagroup.com\/en\/news\/a&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other sources you may find useful include:<\/p>\n<p>D-Wave Systems website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dwavesys.com\/\">https:\/\/www.dwavesys.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>D-Wave Systems video explaining quantum annealing: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zvfkXjzzYOo\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zvfkX&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew Scientist\u201d article on Google\u2019s quantum chips (June 2017):<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2138373-google-on-track-for-quantum-computer-breakthrough-by-end-of-2017\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTech Radar\u201d article on Microsoft quantum computing (December 2016):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/why-microsoft-believes-were-on-the-threshold-of-quantum-computing\">http:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/why-mic&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More videos on computing-related topics can be found at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/explainingcomputers\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/explainingcomp&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may also like my ExplainingTheFuture channel at: <a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/explainingthefuture\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/explainingthef&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum computers may soon be the most powerful data center hardware. Here I review quantum computing concepts, and highlight recent innovations from IBM, D-Wave Systems, Google, Microsoft, Intel and Alibaba. Websites, press releases and articles referred to in the video are as follows: IBM Q online quantum computer: https:\/\/quantumexperience.ng.bluemix&#8230;. IBM cloud quantum computer press release, May 2016: https:\/\/www-03.ibm.com\/press\/us\/en\/pr&#8230; IBM Q press release, March 2017: https:\/\/www-03.ibm.com\/press\/us\/en\/pr&#8230; Latest IBM quantum processors press release, May 2017: http:\/\/www-03.ibm.com\/press\/us\/en\/pre&#8230; \u201cPhysical Review X\u201d technical article on D-Wave 2X performance (1 August 2016): https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prx\/abstract&#8230; \u201cNature\u201d article by Google Quantum AI Lab engineers (March 2017): https:\/\/static.googleusercontent.com\/&#8230; Microsoft Station Q: https:\/\/stationq.microsoft.com\/ \u201cMIT Technology Review\u201d article on Intel silicon-based quantum computing (December 2016): https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/60&#8230; Alibaba quantum computing lab press release (July 2015): http:\/\/www.alibabagroup.com\/en\/news\/a&#8230; Other sources you may find useful include: D-Wave Systems website: https:\/\/www.dwavesys.com\/ D-Wave Systems video explaining quantum annealing: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zvfkX&#8230; \u201cNew Scientist\u201d article on Google\u2019s quantum chips (June 2017): https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/&#8230; \u201cTech Radar\u201d article on Microsoft quantum computing (December 2016): http:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/why-mic&#8230; More videos on computing-related topics can be found at: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/explainingcomp&#8230; You may also like my ExplainingTheFuture channel at: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/explainingthef&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":69355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1343,84,1254],"class_list":["post-69354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-explaining-computers","tag-feature","tag-quantum-computers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69356,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69354\/revisions\/69356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}