IBM offers cloud access to the most advanced quantum computers available. Learn, develop, and run programs with our quantum applications and systems.

    • @Zerush@lemmy.mlOP
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      23 years ago

      In many, because of the way it works, it can solve complex calculations in a matter of seconds or minutes, for which a normal computer would take many years. Ever since microchips were invented for binary computers, Moore’s Law was valid, according to which microchips every two years double the number of transistors they include. But this is already coming to an end, for the reason that the transistors in a microchip already reach atomic size, which prevents the quantities and with this the calculation capacities from increasing much more. There are many applications for quantum computers, from climate calculations to astronomical simulators. Although with the massive introduction in the market, the end of passwords also comes, since no matter how complex they are, they are not a problem for a quantum computer, which hacks them in seconds.

      • @jazzfes@lemmy.ml
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        23 years ago

        Yes, but are the existing quantum computer already used this way? My understanding is that this is still in research…

        • @blank_sl8@lemmy.ml
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          33 years ago

          The OP is playing hopscotch around your question. The answer is NO: Quantum computers as they exist today are just for fooling around. Present day quantum computers can be simulated on classical computers with reasonable performance. More qubits and coherence is necessary before quantum computers can be of practical use, i.e., “quantum supremacy”.

        • @Zerush@lemmy.mlOP
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          23 years ago

          The development is already quite advanced and it is already used for different tasks, it is even being commercialized. But of course, with this technology is not going to stop, see the development of PCs, from the first to today.

          • @lorabe@lemmy.ml
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            23 years ago

            well i believe that you need to control the subatomic particles, and in order to do so you need an “absolute zero” temperature, so i don’t think quantum computing will be as accesible as a PC has been.

            • @Zerush@lemmy.mlOP
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              23 years ago

              Absolute cero no, enough with -100ºC aprox. That can be done in a electronic way (laser, peltier,etc,), but anyway I think that the future is in cloudservices.

              • @lorabe@lemmy.ml
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                13 years ago

                -100C? that’s not as much as i thought…

                Cloud services powered in one way or another with quantum computing… i wonder how that would be. We already live in a cloud environment tho.

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                  3 years ago

                  No, these are pc terminals with access to quantum server for any kind of apps and services. A small look of this you can take in the IBM page, where you can use and test it for serveral proposits. They give public access to their quantum computer. But you can buy currently your own Qunantum PC for $5000, but as in the beginning of PC with only 8bit, this Quantum PC works with 2 qbits, but I think the development will improve very fast in near future. https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/a-desktop-quantum-computer-for-just-usd5-000