Quantum computers today are small in computational scope \u2014 the chip inside your smartphone contains billions of transistors while the most powerful quantum computer contains a few hundred of the quantum equivalent of a transistor. They are also unreliable. If you run the same calculation over and over, they will most likely churn out different answers each time.<\/p>\n
But with their intrinsic ability to consider many possibilities at once, quantum computers do not have to be very large to tackle certain prickly problems of computation, and on Wednesday, IBM researchers announced that they had devised a method to manage the unreliability in a way that would lead to reliable, useful answers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat IBM showed here is really an amazingly important step in that direction of making progress towards serious quantum algorithmic design,\u201d said Dorit Aharonov, a professor of computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who was not involved with the research.<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat IBM showed here is really an amazingly important step in that direction of making progress towards serious quantum algorithmic design.\u201d https:\/\/t.co\/QenWsf3Tjr<\/a><\/p>\n — NYT Science (@NYTScience) June 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n