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Google Creates Quantum Chip →

March 08, 2015 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Computation, Compute Infrastructure, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Infrastructure, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Quantum Effects, Quantum Mathematics, Quantum Mechanics

News, via Wired's Robert McMillan, of trouble in paradise. In this case, an error prone computational quantum platform the search leviathan Google Inc. (NasdqGS: GOOG) is running, down yonder in Mountain View...

"The crux of the problem is a phenomenon called bit-flipping. This happens when some kind of interference—cosmic rays, for example—causes the bits stored in memory to “switch state”—to jump from a 0 to a 1 or vice versa. On a PC or a server, error correction is relatively easy." - via Wired's Robert McMillan

  • Image depicts a D-WAVE branded quantum computational device
March 08, 2015 /Marc Handelman
All is Information, Computation, Compute Infrastructure, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Infrastructure, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Quantum Effects, Quantum Mathematics, Quantum Mechanics
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