World’s First Quantum Computer Made By China 24000 Times Faster Than International Counterparts – Fossbytes

Short Bytes: A team of Chinesescientists has claimed that it has built the worlds first quantum computing machine. According to them, the machine is 24,000 times faster thanits international counterparts and 10-100 times faster than thefirst electronic computer, ENIAC. While it might not be of any practical use at the moment, it surely shows Chinas work in the field of quantum computing.

This quantum computer is built by the researchers working at the University of Science and Technology of China, which is located at Hefei in Anhui province. For those who dont know, quantum computing machines are incredibly faster than the conventional computers. The quantum computers can also predict the complex behaviorof subatomic particles.

The researchers believe that quantum computing could excel the processing power of supercomputers. Pan Jianwei, a quantum physicist, and an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that quantum computing makes use of quantum superposition principle for ultra-fast parallel calculation and simulation capabilities.

The Hefei quantum computing machine is 10 to 100 times faster than the first electronic computer, ENIAC. While it might not be of any practical use at the moment, the future prospects of quantum computing look bright.

Compared to the previous proof-of-principle experiments that had small photon number and low sampling rates, the performance of the new machine is better.

Our architecture is feasible to be scaled up to a larger number of photons and with a higher rate to race against increasingly advanced classical computers, the researchers said in a studypublished in the journal Nature Photonics on Tuesday.

Its the first quantum computing machine based on single photons. This development is interesting to note because, last year, China created the worlds first hack proof quantum satellite.

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