Thursday, August 20th 2020
IBM Delivers Its Highest Quantum Volume to Date
Today, IBM has unveiled a new milestone on its quantum computing road map, achieving the company's highest Quantum Volume to date. Combining a series of new software and hardware techniques to improve overall performance, IBM has upgraded one of its newest 27-qubit client-deployed systems to achieve a Quantum Volume 64. The company has made a total of 28 quantum computers available over the last four years through IBM Quantum Experience.
In order to achieve a Quantum Advantage, the point where certain information processing tasks can be performed more efficiently or cost effectively on a quantum computer, versus a classical one, it will require improved quantum circuits, the building blocks of quantum applications. Quantum Volume measures the length and complexity of circuits - the higher the Quantum Volume, the higher the potential for exploring solutions to real world problems across industry, government, and research.
To achieve this milestone, the company focused on a new set of techniques and improvements that used knowledge of the hardware to optimally run the Quantum Volume circuits. These hardware-aware methods are extensible and will improve any quantum circuit run on any IBM Quantum system, resulting in improvements to the experiments and applications which users can explore. These techniques will be available in upcoming releases and improvements to the IBM Cloud software services and the cross-platform open source software development kit (SDK) Qiskit.
"We are always finding new ways to push the limits of our systems so that we can run larger, more complex quantum circuits and more quickly achieve a Quantum Advantage," said Jay Gambetta, IBM Fellow and Vice President, IBM Quantum. "IBM's full-stack approach gives an innovative avenue to develop hardware-aware applications, algorithms and circuits, all running on the most extensive and powerful quantum hardware fleet in the industry."
The IBM Quantum team has shared details on the technical improvements made across the full stack to reach Quantum Volume 64 in a preprint released on arXiv, today.
IBM Quantum Highlights
In order to achieve a Quantum Advantage, the point where certain information processing tasks can be performed more efficiently or cost effectively on a quantum computer, versus a classical one, it will require improved quantum circuits, the building blocks of quantum applications. Quantum Volume measures the length and complexity of circuits - the higher the Quantum Volume, the higher the potential for exploring solutions to real world problems across industry, government, and research.
To achieve this milestone, the company focused on a new set of techniques and improvements that used knowledge of the hardware to optimally run the Quantum Volume circuits. These hardware-aware methods are extensible and will improve any quantum circuit run on any IBM Quantum system, resulting in improvements to the experiments and applications which users can explore. These techniques will be available in upcoming releases and improvements to the IBM Cloud software services and the cross-platform open source software development kit (SDK) Qiskit.
"We are always finding new ways to push the limits of our systems so that we can run larger, more complex quantum circuits and more quickly achieve a Quantum Advantage," said Jay Gambetta, IBM Fellow and Vice President, IBM Quantum. "IBM's full-stack approach gives an innovative avenue to develop hardware-aware applications, algorithms and circuits, all running on the most extensive and powerful quantum hardware fleet in the industry."
The IBM Quantum team has shared details on the technical improvements made across the full stack to reach Quantum Volume 64 in a preprint released on arXiv, today.
IBM Quantum Highlights
- IBM has reached Quantum Volume 64 on a 27-qubit system deployed within the IBM Q Network
- 28 quantum computing systems deployed on the IBM Cloud over the last four years with eight systems boasting a Quantum Volume of 32
- The IBM Q Network has 115 client, government, startup, partner, and university members
- 250,000+ registered users of the IBM Quantum Experience
- Users routinely execute more than 1 Billion hardware circuits per day on IBM Quantum systems on the IBM Cloud
- Researchers have published 250+ papers based on work on IBM Quantum systems
46 Comments on IBM Delivers Its Highest Quantum Volume to Date
Any suggestions of materials to better understand??
I didn't get through the whole thing tbh with you :P
Wizardry, I say.
www.wikihow.com/Understand-Quantum-Physics
Unless I missing the point, and it's rather used for some specific computing and not as a replacement for our normal binary system.
It'll take at least the next 30 years of slow, but open to the public like this, incremental development. By that time, people will know exactly how to build one. It's not hard to figure out how to build a dual bit computer these days. And it was never really a secret before. Anyone can build a rudimentary computer from single transistors today if they know what they are doing. This won't be any different with quantum computers, once the components are readily available.
Its a normal university like any other and the field of science is a field like every other.
www.tudelft.nl/en/faculty-of-applied-sciences/about-faculty/departments/quantum-nanoscience/
As for available to the average joe, there isn't a single commercial use case for it yet. So even if you had it... what would you do with it?
You have to realize this is a leap in technology especially, and first of all, in terms of cybersecurity. So what you want is broad knowledge of this stuff, because knowledge in this case truly, literally is power. And lacking knowledge will cause you (as a state, company, population) severe risk and trouble. The foremost use case right now that is envisioned is not only communication over distance but most notably cracking encryption, as quantum can do that many orders faster than any binary system.
So what you WILL get as lowly consumer/civilian is probably some form of security that mitigates quantum decryption methods.
So far all those arms races have been hugely beneficial to our progress. Think Space Race. This is really quite similar.
Additionally, if we're racing against each other, we aren't shooting.
Formerly an Engineer, I understand it perfectly well. I even used to make my own food to take to my former place of work. Aren't I clever :confused:
And we have a computer scientist in the family. God, she used to bore me to tears.
Look, I'm merely pointing out the pitfalls of new thechnology in the wrong hands. There really is no need to write an essay about it.
Just make your point brief and to the point, that's all I'm asking. :)I did. And yes, it does have it's downsides. Please read the link I posted earlier.
Another thing I'm fond of is trying to put a different perspective, or logic, on a subject. That's what I tried with the point of whether its a downside or not. It depends on how you look at it, sometimes.
Cracking encryption does not become a breeze with a quantum computer, it just becomes faster depending on the parameters and requirements at play. Quantum computers do not and will not make today's modern encryption irrelevant. Things just don't work that way.
It's a form of attack. Have some manners when responding in future, You might get a better response.
Maybe actually read my whole post as I gave your post the same favor, before answering with MEH after only reading one sentence of what I wrote. Don't talk about manners, if you want to ignore the smallest criticism of what you wrote so quickly. This is a public forum, so be prepared that what you write will be scrutinized. And no need to take these things immediately as a personal attack.