{"id":1192433,"date":"2023-10-14T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1192433"},"modified":"2023-10-14T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T17:34:00","slug":"chinese-scientists-claim-record-smashing-quantum-computing-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1192433","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Scientists Claim Record-Smashing Quantum Computing Breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the South China Morning Post:<\/p>\n<p>Scientists in China say their latest quantum computer has solved an ultra-complicated mathematical problem within a millionth of a second \u2014 more than 20 billion years quicker than the world&#8217;s fastest supercomputer could achieve the same task. The JiuZhang 3 prototype also smashed the record set by its predecessor in the series, with a one million-fold increase in calculation speed, according to a paper published on Tuesday by the peer-reviewed journal Physical Review Letters&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>The series uses photons \u2014 tiny particles that travel at the speed of light \u2014 as the physical medium for calculations, with each one carrying a qubit, the basic unit of quantum information&#8230; The fastest classical supercomputer Frontier \u2014 developed in the US and named the world&#8217;s most powerful in mid-2022 \u2014 would take over 20 billion years to complete the same task, the researchers said.<br \/>\nThe article claims they&#8217;ve increased the number of photons from 76 to 113 in the first two versions, improving to 255 in the latest iteration.<br \/>\nThanks to long-time Slashdot reader hackingbear for sharing the news.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div class=\"share_submission\" style=\"position:relative\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Chinese+Scientists+Claim+Record-Smashing+Quantum+Computing+Breakthrough%3A+https%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F23%2F10%2F14%2F0438247%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/twitter_icon_large-539.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F23%2F10%2F14%2F0438247%2Fchinese-scientists-claim-record-smashing-quantum-computing-breakthrough%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/facebook_icon_large-269.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/story\/23\/10\/14\/0438247\/chinese-scientists-claim-record-smashing-quantum-computing-breakthrough?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Slashdot &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/story\/23\/10\/14\/0438247\/chinese-scientists-claim-record-smashing-quantum-computing-breakthrough?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chinese Scientists Claim Record-Smashing Quantum Computing Breakthrough<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the South China Morning Post: Scientists in China say their latest quantum computer has solved an ultra-complicated mathematical problem within a millionth of a second \u2014 more than 20 billion years quicker than the world&#8217;s fastest supercomputer could achieve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1192433\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1192434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,110],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-1192433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slashdot","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-slashdot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1192433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1192434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1192433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1192433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1192433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}