A team of researchers at Microsoft Quantum has reportedly achieved a first milestone toward creating a reliable and practical quantum computer. In their paper, published in the journal Physical Review B, the group describes the milestone and their plans to build a reliable quantum computer over the next 25 years.

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    1 year ago

    I want to make a joke about this resulting in the universe blues greening because it’s Microsoft…

    But honestly this is fascinating

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      1 year ago

      I know you meant “bluescreening” instead of blues greening, but I like the idea of an universe becoming the blue/green of the windows XP wallpaper

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    1 year ago

    Low on details, but if they are right this will change things. To have a scalable reliable quantum hardware puts a lot of things within reach. Breaking some encryption is a given, but what happens when this is used for AI or new encryption or if we get quantum algorithms for NP problems? Any of that changes things, potentially changes them a lot.