Without a doubt at the University of Maryland have a very important milestone in the history of computing through the creation of what today is the world’s first programmable quantum computer , a feature that had not been to date. According to the article published by its creators in Nature, apparently talk of a computer that today day works with five bits quantum or qubits, capacity that could be expanded thanks to its scalability.
The team responsible of this work, directed by the Doctor Shantanu Debnath, has decided based his work in an of them architectures more ancient, same that was devised in 1995 by them physical Spanish and Austrian Juan Ignacio Cirac and Peter Zoller. In this architecture, the quantum bits are stored in individual Atomic ions that are ‘trapped’ in line thanks to the use of magnetic fields and powerful laser systems.
Created the world’s first programmable quantum computer in the University of Maryland.
Thanks to this technology, the human being is about to reach the methodology necessary to create computers more powerful and fast. Obviously, for this will cast off the way of working of current computers, i.e. all the methodology of logic gates, zeros and ones to work with rules of quantum physics. This would allow work to an speed much greater and above all to resolve problems with a efficiency impressive.
Now, for you time all scientists and engineers face a pretty big problem and that has a lot to do with the system created, the prototype of the University of Maryland or quantum computers working in IBM or Google, they are too small and only allow to solve simple algorithms being, sometimes even slower than a conventional computer.
According to the study published by this group of researchers in the journal Nature, an example of efficiency is how in a quantum computer there are algorithms which calculate math in one step while a conventional computer need to perform multiple operations. The study, in turn, shows an 98% efficiency at the time of carry out these operations.
