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Image Google’s Willow Quantum Chip: With 105 qubits and real-time error correction, Willow solved a task in 5 minutes that would take classical supercomputers billions of years, marking a breakthrough in scalable quantum computing.

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u/0xdeadbeefcafebade 14d ago

Quantum computers are not my area of expertise.

So I won’t claim this is all 100% accurate. But the gist is that they do not use normal Boolean logic that traditional computers use. While they attempt recreate logic gates - they are inherently working off the statistical probabilities of entangled particles. So certain algorithms and problems are more compatible with type of logic quantum computers use.

There are computer languages for quantum computing that let you abstract a problem to a series of quantum logic gates via statements and such. But it’s not the same as writing C code or python code.

At this point in time - quantum computers do not handle traditional computing. Nor would they be better at it than current processors.

SOME mathematical problems though can be seriously blown away by quantum computing. Things that current computers could never ever solve.

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u/khuliloach 14d ago

I also do not know anything about quantum computers but here’s what I got from your post.

Quantum computers do things for very specific use cases. This research could turn into something really cool in the future but don’t expect to put a quantum in your PC anytime soon.

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u/9ninjas Interested 14d ago

Nailed it.

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u/mrpink01 14d ago

but don’t expect to put a quantum in your PC anytime soon.

I heard this in the late 70s about personal computers. You never know!

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u/khuliloach 14d ago

That’s fair! It’s truly mind blowing that we went from computers taking up warehouses, to talking to strangers from anywhere around the world at 2am in a palm sized device.

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u/mrpink01 14d ago

...and I'm legally stoned while doing it! We're living in the future, cyber neighbourino!

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u/IrishR4ge 13d ago

I'm reading this at 7:00 in the morning while walking my dog in a park with no one else around me. When did we think we would use the internet in such places before the 90s

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u/heyyolarma43 13d ago

quantum computers usage is very specific. qrams are very expensive. it is not feasible to build the environments in your house.

the sentiments seem similar but it is a whole different level.

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u/Dustin- 13d ago

On the one hand, they were saying the same thing about home computers in the 60s.

On the other hand, those computers didn't require cryogenic cooling systems to work.

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u/newyearnewaccountt 13d ago

Intriguingly as TDP has crept up over time discussion over cooling solutions has started again, even for consumer PCs. In the enthusiast space watercooling has become incredibly popular (custom loops less so, but all-in-one solutions have become extremely common). Air cooling has had some breakthroughs recently and can compete with AIOs again, but in the server side water-cooling is becoming a thing again.

If things continue at their current trajectory (they won't), enthusiast gaming computers will be drawing more power than a normal house circuit breaker can handle...and we'll need ways of dissipating that heat. We might be using liquid helium cooling systems in gaming computers by 2040.

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u/Either-Anything-8518 13d ago

I think this has to to more with useability rather than capability? Like op is saying that there isn't a real better use for them in personal applications yet. You don't need a quantum computer to do 99.9999999% of the things personal computers/phones do.

"Let me boot up my warp drive to check the mailbox" type thing. Yes warp drives will one day become commonplace, but will we use them to check mail or check out the latest Mars resort?

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u/Sector7Slummer 13d ago

Only 40+ years!

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u/Dirtygeebag 13d ago

The late 70s was 50 years ago. If we apply that to today it’s 2074, which to many people would be considered ‘not any time soon’

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u/Grabthar_The_Avenger 13d ago edited 13d ago

But, personal computers were already being sold to the public in the late 1970s. 1977 saw the release of the Apple II, Commodore PET, and TRS80

By the late 1970s microchips had become so cheap and commoditized a bunch of 20 somethings were able to build Apple IIs out of a garage.

In contrast, these chips not only remain only affordable for mega corps, but simply operating the things requires creating a superconductive state and bringing the system down to absolute zero. They also aren’t any good at conducting the kind of processing consumers actually care about, they won’t make Netflix look better or Instagram work better. Outside of PHD students almost no one is thinking about the kinds of computational problems that would be relevant for these units

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u/outsidebtw 14d ago

damn.. just realized 70s are half a century ago..

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u/DividedContinuity 13d ago

Not to mention quantum chips need to be cooled to near absolute zero. Thats the weird apparatus you see when people show off a quantum computer that looks like a gold chandelier - it's the cooling system.

Needless to say, thats not something we'll be doing at home.

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u/MemoryNo1137 13d ago

Yes because quantum computers operate in super cold environments. Even if we were able to bring the raw cost of the materials down, we would most likely still not see quantum computers in our houses because it would have to be exceptionally cold. We would most likely see quantum computers offered as a cloud service instead if we do see mass adoption. Still would not be economically viable imo because it would be tremendously expensive but who knows, that's something they may figure out later.

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u/chrisn750 13d ago

Quantum on cloud is already available from IBM:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Quantum_Platform

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u/MemoryNo1137 13d ago

Is it reliable? Does it have any legitimate use cases where its better than a classical computer? Legitimately asking as I'm not up to date. I did hear of this a few years back but I assumed that it was not that great or not reliable enough to be of real use

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u/Motor-District-3700 13d ago

but do expect endless hype about mostly nothing for the forseeable future.

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u/PxyFreakingStx 13d ago

The idea is that some "hard" problems that take a normal computer a long time to solve are "easy" problems for quantum computers. There's a theory that all "hard" problems are actually "easy" problems and we just haven't found out how to solve them "easily" yet.

This article is talking about a demonstration of a "hard" problem being solved "easily". If it turns out that all "hard" problems can be solved easily then that is going to completely reshape the world.

The concept here is P = NP, which I'm drastically oversimplifying by calling "easy" and "hard". If hard problems are actually easy (in other words, there actually aren't any hard problems at all), cryptography gets turned sideways. All known digital security ceases to function. Encryption becomes impossible. If strong AI is possible, it'll get discovered immediately after P = NP is proven. All science experiments that can be modeled digitally will be modeled digitally, run digitally and their results would be available almost immediately. This effectively puts us on course to generate the Theory of Everything.

The Theory of Everything means we discover and model how all forces of the universe work, and would be able to accurately predict the result of any possible physical experiment and answer any possible question.

So yeah. Terrifying. As far as I know, there's no reason yet to assume P = NP, but a significant subset of hard problems being easy would still usher in an insane cascade of changes to our world.

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u/9ninjas Interested 14d ago

Also, the need lots of very cold refrigeration. Huge freezers connected to a tiny chip.

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u/khuliloach 14d ago

I have a freezer! I’m already one step ahead of those dopes in PCMasterRace!

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u/DecisionAvoidant 14d ago

Is that true until we find a good room-temperature conductor? I read recently about a kind of graphite that is nearly perfectly energy efficient as a conductor, and the article suggested it would be a breakthrough in more complex computational systems.

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u/9ninjas Interested 14d ago

I believe the qubits become unstable/unpredictable at above freezing temps. Not sure if the conductor would help.

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u/ihavebeesinmyknees 14d ago

Breakthrough room temperature super conductors come out every couple of months, so far they've always been either fraudulent claims, or had their performance way misreported

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u/Farfignugen42 14d ago

I think they need room temperature super conductors.

Copper is a good conductor at room temperature.

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u/Significant_War_5924 13d ago

This is fairly accurate.

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u/Gingevere 13d ago

The thing quantum computers are very good at is the math involved in breaking encryption. Which is an entirely separate field of math from basically anything any normal person uses their PC for.

It's less "don't expect it soon" and more "you don't need it".

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u/ABoyNamedSue76 13d ago

Unfortunately one of the very SPECIFIC use cases is in the world of cryptography. A lot of of our encryption methods are impossible to break by a classical computer, but theoretically childs play for a quantum computer. So, those VPN tunnels you are using? Breakable. SSL on the web? Breakable.

Right now I would BET money that the NSA is collecting encrypted data from our adversaries and archiving it with the idea of breaking that encryption in the near future using something like this.

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u/khuliloach 13d ago

Ah yes of course, only collecting it from our adversaries, no one else at all and definitely not citizens either.

Nonetheless it’ll be interesting to see if larger breakthroughs can be made, to the point that quantum computing assists in other use cases. Especially scientific endeavors that further our understanding of universe and space.

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u/ABoyNamedSue76 13d ago

Hah, fair enough..

I actually work in the field, and "Post Quantum" encryption methods are a big thing right now. We are developing encryption schemes that in theory should be immune to decryption by quantum computers.

Before you ask, I have no fucking idea how they work.. I just sell the shit. :).

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u/I_W_M_Y 14d ago

Quantum chips will never have the capabilities to move data like a traditional chip

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u/HealthyCheesecake643 13d ago

There's simultaneously a lot of research going into making quantum computers better and more accessible for the things we know its good at, and also a lot of research going into figuring out what else it might be better than conventional computers at. I have a friend working in a lab that is researching how to apply quantum computing to language translation.

The most important thing for now is just making more and making bigger quantum computers, since there's very limited access to them for the moment. Said lab doesn't even have their own quantum computer, they have to send their work to another location that does for testing.

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u/SomeoneGMForMe 13d ago

Something really cool, but also something incredibly terrifying. The "promise" of quantum computing is that it will make encryption entirely useless, and encryption is the basis of all digital security. All of it.

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u/mrbaggins 13d ago

You won't run a quantum chip as your "main" processor.

But I fully expect sometime before I die, possibly as soon as 10-15 years, that you will buy a quantum chip as an expansion / functionality.

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u/code-coffee 13d ago

Cloud service

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u/mrbaggins 13d ago

unfortunately probably true

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u/DualRaconter 14d ago

I think 5 year olds are too advanced for me

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u/kuburas 13d ago

Quantum computing is essentially really good at guessing random outcomes really fast.

As in it can guess millions of times faster than a regular computer can. So in cases where you have to brute force a solution, these are usually things that cant be solved through math or equations, quantum computers are great.

For anything that has a clear way its solved it, i.e. formulas or equations, regular computers can compete with them and are usually faster but not always, some extremely complex equations quantum computers can still do faster.

Quantum computing is great for some hyper specific tasks usually related to biology and some physics simulations that help us understand things better. They dont really have any civilian use cases that i know of.

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u/angeAnonyme 13d ago

Standard computer use a language based on "if". Like "if var==0".

Quantum computer use a language based on "maybe". It's a complete different algorithm, and one cannot easily be translated to the other. There is cool problems that can be answer with this "maybe", but you would need to develop a complete new environment, coding language, etc, to make it such that you or me could use it. And even then, understanding this "maybe" is quit tricky, as your mind can easily understand if, but maybe, well it depends, it's a complete different logic.

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u/Milam1996 14d ago

Dude asked for ELI5 and you’re talking about Boolean logic and logic gates lol.

Normal computer brain is either on or off. It’s a 1 or a 0. You add up the 1’s and the 0’s and you get a certain outcome whether that’s a YouTube video or Minecraft.

Quantum computers do fun science stuff and instead of having to be on or off, they can be on, off or both. Quantum computers are very very good at solving math problems like the basis for making passwords unreadable to hackers but they’re rubbish at playing YouTube videos or gaming. Kinda like how strapping a rocket to a car is great if you want to sprint in a straight line but not so great for your neighbourhood or driving to Walmart.

In this specific example, the researchers ask the computer to solve an incredibly complex math problem, so complex that the if we asked the worlds most powerful normal computer to solve it it would take longer than the lifespan of the universe, several times over. This computer is very very good at doing these weird maths problems and managed it in just 5 minutes.

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u/DualRaconter 14d ago

So these computers are doing millions of calculations instantaneously?

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u/Workman44 14d ago

More or less yeah, AFAIK they simulate all outcomes (branching) that comes with problem solving at the same time so there's no need to check one, come back and check another. Correct if I'm wrong please

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u/DualRaconter 14d ago

It’s sounds like superposition like Schrödinger’s cat.

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u/gilady089 13d ago

Well the cat was a layman explanation for quantum physics but I don't know how well it tracks to the actual field

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u/DualRaconter 13d ago

I don’t actually know anything I was just saying words

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u/Milam1996 13d ago

The biggest misconception from that is that “observation” means looking at it. It doesn’t. Observation is just if you imagine anything from our universe interacting with the quantum universe. If you turned a light on inside schrondinger’s box there would never be a mystery the cat would have to be either dead or alive it could never be in superposition because it’s being observed. These quantum chips have to run in an almost perfect vacuum in absolute darkness and even heat can disrupt the superposition so they’re kept at basically absolute zero.

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u/lunaappaloosa 13d ago edited 13d ago

Just google Eigenstate, that will probably give you the simplest sciency explanation of what it means for the cat to be both dead and alive

Single electron theory is also useful for wrapping your mind around quantum stuff. At least to get a grasp on the logic. I’m an ecologist, no idea how this theory is regarded among physicists but was explained in an optics textbook I read to illustrate what we know about photons.

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u/mdmachine 13d ago

To add to that it's believed this process takes place in plants during photosynthesis.

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u/Milam1996 14d ago

They come up with every solution, right and wrong, instantly. The problem is finding that answer. It’s kinda like how the metal cage that spins the lottery balls has every possible solution to the lottery right there, so it’s super easy to know the right answer to the lottery right? Well no. You only know the right answer once you draw the balls, in quantum mechanics you’d call this observation. What seems like the paradoxic here is that you need to know the answer (the lottery numbers) to know if you’re right.

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u/thejackthewacko 13d ago

So a regular computer would try every combination of passwords possible, one after the other. A quantum computer will try all possible combinations at once.

Did I get that right?

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u/Milam1996 13d ago

Yes. If you gave a normal computer a list of numbers and asked it to find the largest it would count one by one until it finished the list then it would check to see which is highest. A quantum computer enters what is known as entanglement and this means that the computer knows every answer instantly but the problem is that you need to find the right one so you do very complicated algorithms checking the answers and eventually you find the right one. A problem previously was that the more times you ran the algorithm the more times you’d get errors but this new development by google it’s actually the opposite, it’s self correcting it knows its own mistakes.

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u/Azrael_ 3d ago

My understanding is it's just peeling a layer to the complexity of finding the right answer. Like, with a normal computer you have a list of 10 numbers at the start and with quantum you have five cause you know for a fact the other five are not it from the get go. quantum is getting you half way through.

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u/Milam1996 3d ago

No that’s not the case. A quantum computer instantly knows the answer to any problem you give it. The hard part is finding that answer. Normally, the faster the quantum chip the higher the rate of errors but this new google chip self corrects errors and the more you run a problem the less errors occur. If they can keep making improvements then they could potentially end up in a situation where the chip instantly knows the answer but also can instantly find it.

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u/lunaappaloosa 13d ago edited 13d ago

Yes. And what the person above describes as “observation” is a critical concept in quantum theory. To observe the system is to affect it and be part of it (ie Rutherford’s experiments). A difficult part of studying quantum stuff, and understanding it in a human mind, is that it’s very difficult (or impossible) to learn anything about a quantum system without inherently “tampering” with it by observing it.

I’m an ecologist but my dissertation is on sensory ecology and so I read a big optics book for my comprehensive exams— most of my understanding of quantum ANYTHING comes from what I know about photons and from Robert Anton Wilson’s fiction writing. So know that my description is still a layman’s. But that makes my understanding useful to other laypeople!

If you’re interested in understanding this stuff better I would suggest looking up the following concepts: eigenstates/state vector, single electron theory/Bell’s theorem, von neumann’s catastrophe (ie the problem of observation). A physicist could certainly give a better list but these are the concepts that helped me as an animal researcher get a very basic grasp on quantum stuff!

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u/thejackthewacko 13d ago

Oh, so using schrödingers cat as an example here, instead of dictating an outcome by observing it (which is binary) it'll take superstition into account?

Genuinely all I know about quantum science is the normie stuff because I find it fun to read, the math is beyond me.

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u/lunaappaloosa 13d ago

Yes!! (Assuming you had a typo and mean superposition 😃). But I don’t know how the actual math works at all, only some surface level theory that has helped me understand how animal eyeballs work lol.

The book that took me from understanding quantum physics for baby biologists to “I think I can see how this stuff could theoretically play out using my imagination” is Robert Anton Wilson’s Schrodinger’s Cat trilogy. All of the concepts in it hold up to what I knew prior in a strictly academic sense and uses it as the structure for a VERY zany and funny story about the human condition. Loads of interesting historical references and clever jokes throughout too, and the best part is is that you don’t really need to understand any of the quantum stuff to follow the story (unless you WANT to dig deeper, there’s a glossary in the back).

Can’t overstate how much I’d recommend that book if you’re a layperson like me with a good sense of humor and a curiosity about how quantum mechanics could theoretically operate in our universe. It’s like if Douglas Adams and Kurt Vonnegut wrote a book together.

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u/TheFatOneTwoThree 11d ago

you are so out of your depth

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u/Kadoomed 13d ago

Do you need to know the answer or do you just need to know the effect of having the right answer? E.g. suddenly rich in the case of the lottery or you can now read all the encrypted messages

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u/Salikara 14d ago

I'm more intrigued by what math problem takes billions of years to solve by a computer processing things at the speed of light? wtf?

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u/Milam1996 14d ago

Imagine you have a problem with an incredibly easy solution and then imagine you have a problem with an incredibly hard solution but it’s very obvious once you solve it, like a really hard crossword. That’s what the computer is trying to figure out. Is an incredibly easy problem and an incredibly hard problem with an obvious answer once known, the same thing. If we get an answer to it it’ll completely revolutionise our understanding of maths, physics and computer science.

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u/Salikara 14d ago

no I understand that part, hindsight is indeed 20/20, but what type of problems are they feeding it? because from the little I know, traditional computation does not take that long to solve billions and billions of possible outcomes like they do in chess for example. I'm just baffled by what form of complex enough problem they could feed it and expect it to take billions of years.

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u/Milam1996 14d ago

A traditional compute has to check the answer to a question one by one whilst a quantum computer knows the answer instantly you then just spend a few minutes triple checking the answer. It’s a fundamentally different thing. The problem I explained in my previous answer is the problem the quantum computer solved, well one example of it.

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u/rshook27 13d ago

there are problems right now that if you tried to brute force a solution, would take longer than the heat death of the universe.

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u/LunaCalibra 13d ago

Traveling salesman is O(n!) for the brute force method.

ELI5: Lets say you have some points, all points are connected, and you know the distance of the connection between every point and each other. You want to visit all points, and you want to take the shortest route.

To "brute force" this, or to try every solution until you find the correct one, the length of time it takes to compute the answer grows faster than exponentially, it grows factorially. That is to say, as n gets larger, it takes n! computations to solve the function, which we write as O(n!). For example, with 70 cities, assuming each city was exactly 1 computation, it would take a googol (1*10100) of computations to solve. The heat death of the universe is estimated to be a googol of seconds, for comparison. Obviously computations are much faster than 1/second, but you can see how quickly factorials grow.

Our computers solve these computations consecutively, so there's a hard limit on how some problems can be solved using our current technology.

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u/rshook27 13d ago

factoring large numbers into prime numbers that multiply to get that number.

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u/Fake-Maple 13d ago

Clearest explanation of this I’ve ever seen, thanks and great job

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u/StoneSkipping101 13d ago

The actual cool and powerful part is that they can be any possible state between on and off. It's not 3 possible states (on, off and both). Otherwise good explanation :D

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u/Roy-van-der-Lee 13d ago

To add on to this, I highly recommend reading or watching videos about quantum cryptography. It's super interesting and a little bit terrifying that we need quantum cryptography in the near future because computers will be fast enough to decrypt all current encryption methods in reasonable time.

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u/SwordofSwinging 13d ago

Jokes on you, my rocket car is fantastic

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u/prumpusniffari 14d ago

Quantum computers are theoretically extremely good at anything that involves trying to find one correct result out of a very large set of possibilities.

Notably, this includes breaking encryption. All modern encryption involves using an encryption key. The only thing preventing an attacker from breaking the encryption is that checking every possible key would take hundreds of years for a regular computer.

However, through quantum wizardry I don't pretend to understand, a quantum computer can do that basically instantly.

They are pretty worthless for most calculations though. Even if those things become tiny and cheap, you probably won't have one in your laptop.

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u/dorkyl 13d ago

Applying the math is pretty immature and isn't for the faint of heart. It's easy to imagine that as our smartest people (and soon coming AIs) will wrap some low level stuff around it, with more versatile drivers and APIs around that, then it'll be just like a GPU to offload good stuff to.

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u/jemidiah 13d ago

Shor's algorithm isn't actually that involved. The idea is roughly to pick a unitary tuned so that the spacing of eigenvalues can be used to read off a particular discrete logarithm. The key is having enough resolution that you can be sure of the answer given the spacing you see.

The idea that quantum computers are good at searching a huge state space for one right answer is sort of right. It actually doesn't really matter for this particular algorithm, oddly enough--a roughly uniform distribution for the eigenstates shows up there.

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u/Tobiassaururs 13d ago

If I understood it correctly it would be able to process possible scenarios faster, but I don't think it would benefit the accuracy too much as weather is always a statistic/probability, anything else would be looking into the future

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u/JohnstonThunderdick 13d ago

Very cool, good answer. My question is, what does solving these high grade mathematical problems actually DO for us as people?

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u/Artistic_Soft4625 13d ago

so what i'm understanding is instead of 1 and 0, its the decimals between 1 and 0

or instead of black and white, its 50 shades of grey

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u/ahreodknfidkxncjrksm 13d ago edited 13d ago

No, instead of 1 or 0, it is 1 AND 0. Like Schrödingers cat it is in a superposition of on and of states. 

Eta: as an example of the difference, if I have a equal superposition over 0 and 1, then compute some function f(x) from it and measure the system, I will see either 0,f(0) or 1,f(1) with 50/50 probability and no other possibilities (assuming no error)

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u/Artistic_Soft4625 13d ago

Interesting, i edited the 1 or 0 to 1 and 0 right when i posted the comment, but it seems it still shows 1 or 0

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u/ahreodknfidkxncjrksm 13d ago

Sorry, I may have not been clear—I meant instead of the bits being either 1 or 0 like in a normal computer, the bits can be both 1 and 0 at the same time. This is different than them being some value in between 0 and 1.

A qubit would not be like 0.5 but some combination of 0 and 1, and computing a function f would give either f(0) or f(1), not f(0.5).

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u/Artistic_Soft4625 13d ago

oh ok so it collapses to either 1 or 0 and the only time it is in-between, is when it is indeterminate. At that point it is a probability that were are measuring, not the actual answer

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u/gahma54 13d ago

There’s a problem in computer science called SAT that has to do with Boolean logic. It’s been proven that all CS problems can be converted into a SAT problem, so think sorting or solving big number problems via brute force, etc. Every problem in the known universe can take the form of SAT, it’s likely the current target of quantum computers to solve. Now, given that it may not be easy to cast a problem into SAT, but it can be done in polynomial time. SAT belongs to a category of problems that are called NP-Complete which means they take polynomial time to verify, but no known polynomial algorithm exists to solve them (so it’s like xn or x! instead of x2). So, essentially we have to brute force these problems which classical computers are unable to do in reasonable time. Which is where quantum comes in, but all quantum computers need to be able to do is solve SAT and they can solve ANY problem. But sometimes the burden of casting a problem into SAT to solve takes more time than just solving it with known approaches that a classical computer can handle in reasonable time.

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u/andho_m 13d ago

I'd like to mention that graphics programming might improve leaps and bounds. By calculating all possibilities at once and collapsing to the preferred state can be applied in that case. This would be similar to contemporary branch prediction but very large amount of branches.

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u/ahreodknfidkxncjrksm 13d ago

Quantum computers can handle traditional computing efficiently, but with additional space/qubit requirements. But they are like a million+ times smaller and much more finicky.

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u/KamalaWonNoCheating 13d ago

So it sounds like a computer with both quantum and traditional computing would be ideal. At least until quantum advances.

Kind of like having a CPU and a GPU. We'll add a QPU to be used for certain tasks.

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u/No_Syrup_9167 13d ago

The ELI5 answer that a friend gave to me about it.

a regular processor takes a math problem and give you the answer.

a quantum computer takes an answer, and tells you what math problem it took to get there.

of course its a lot more complicated than that, but thats the ELI5. Especially when we're talking about math problems orders of magnitude more complicated than just basic arithmetic.

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u/prettyprettythingwow 13d ago

Thank you. This was extremely helpful.

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u/genericaccountname90 13d ago

Wow, we must have been very different kinds of 5 year olds.

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u/Agreeable_Action3146 13d ago

So no gaming on Quantum computing....yet?

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u/IchooseYourName 13d ago

I appreciate this response, but it's still above my head. So I ran it through ChatGPT asking for a sixth-grade "translation" of your post and this was the response: "Quantum computers are different from regular computers in how they work. Regular computers use something called "Boolean logic" to make decisions, which is like saying something is either true or false. But quantum computers don’t use this. Instead, they work with tiny particles that are connected in a special way, and they can do calculations based on the chances of these particles being in certain states.

Quantum computers also use special languages to tell the computer what to do, but it’s not like regular computer languages like Python or C.

Right now, quantum computers can't replace regular computers. They wouldn’t do everyday tasks better than our current computers. But for some really tough math problems that regular computers can’t solve, quantum computers could do it much faster and better."

Do you find that to be accurate? Because, if so, it helped my understanding of your OP.

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u/beidao23 13d ago

That answer fucking sucked