Quantum Computers Get Boost From Bio-Nano Hybrid Devices
Speed of Quantum Computers Accelerates Towards 2025 | By Jason Louv.
(Pictured above: Quantum dots, semiconductors that show promise for solid-state quantum computers among many other uses.)
Quantum computers, which have existed since the 1960s but which still remain in development for anything approaching public use, are computers that use quantum properties instead of binary code to process data. Instead of running on simple ones and zeros, they run on quantum properties like superposition and entanglement.
Next Big Future reports today that Quantum Computers will be faster than digital computers by 2025—for optimization problems and quantum simulations.
Quantum Computers will be faster and more powerful than Classical computers for optimization problems and quantum simulations by 2025. There are several possibilities for quantum computers with many thousands of qubits.
There is Dwave Systems and their superconducting adiabatic quantum computer. They have had a 512 qubit superconducting chip for over one year. Quantum dots, lasers and several other methods are being developed now and look promising for making quantum computing systems with hundreds to thousands of qubits in the 2-8 year timeframe. Some of these systems will be able to perform quantum simulations of molecular processes.
Meanwhile, the blog also reports that a team from the University of Jerusalem and Universität Ulm in Ulm, Germany have produced a paper on “Self-assembling hybrid diamond-biological quantum devices,” proposing a scalable system of nitrogen vacancy centers implanted into diamond, combining bio and nanotech to boost quantum processing speed.
Scalable arrangements of nitrogen vacancy centers (NV) in diamond remain an open key challenge on the way to ecient quantum information processing, quantum simulation and magnetic sensing applications at the quantum limit.
Although technologies based on implanting NV centers in bulk diamond or hybrid device approaches have been developed, they are limited in the achievable spatial resolution or by the intricate complexity, respectively. Here we provide an alternative solution for creating a scalable system of individually addressable NV centers based on the self-assembling capabilities of biological systems. By using surface functionalized nanodiamonds we propose a new avenue to bridging the bio-nano interface. Taking bene t of the outstanding nanometer resolution of the bio self-assembling techniques together with the controlled creation even of 3-D spatial structures [5] paves the way towards numerous multiqubit applications.
Get the full paper and supplementary equations here.
Click here for a University of Cambridge infographic explaining quantum computing.
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Jason Louv Jason Louv is the author of Queen Valentine and editor of Thee Psychick Bible, Ultraculture Journal and Generation Hex. He currently lives in Los Angeles.
