News Diamond-based quantum accelerators to be integrated into Oak Ridge National Laboratory's HPC

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Quantum Brilliance (QB) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have announced a strategic collaboration that will integrate the former’s diamond-based quantum accelerators with the latter’s state-of-the-art high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure.

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Uh, no specs on how many qubits these things have?

 

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Uh, no specs on how many qubits these things have?

From https://spectrum.ieee.org/nitrogen-vacancy-diamond-quantum-computer-accelerator-qubits-server-rack


“The first generation of Quantum Brilliance's quantum accelerators only hosts 5 qubits. However, “in five years time, it will be the size of a graphics card with 50-plus qubits,” Doherty says.”

 

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From https://spectrum.ieee.org/nitrogen-vacancy-diamond-quantum-computer-accelerator-qubits-server-rack

“The first generation of Quantum Brilliance's quantum accelerators only hosts 5 qubits. However, “in five years time, it will be the size of a graphics card with 50-plus qubits,” Doherty says.”

Thanks!

Do you believe them? I mean, this industry has such a good track record of predicting their progress! Especially with them being room temperature, what could possibly go wrong with that??
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Thanks!

Do you believe them? I mean, this industry has such a good track record of predicting their progress! Especially with them being room temperature, what could possibly go wrong with that??
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I know the words people use to describe how a quantum computer works, entanglement and superposition. I can superficially understand the idea but the concepts of how to make it work are so far beyond my comprehension that I can’t form an opinion as to whether they will do it.

 

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I know the words people use to describe how a quantum computer works, entanglement and superposition. I can superficially understand the idea but the concepts of how to make it work are so far beyond my comprehension that I can’t form an opinion as to whether they will do it.

The problem with scaling is de-coherence (i.e. when entanglement is lost). The main reason quantum computers typically run at temperatures colder than interstellar space and isolated from EMI is to limit interference that can cause de-coherence.

I do think it speaks volumes that Oak Ridge decided to buy some of these, because I'm sure the folks there know a lot more about quantum computing than I do (and probably ever will, given some of them are specifically specialists in theoretical physics). If they believe in the story Quantum Brilliance is spinning (if you'll excuse the pun), then there's probably something to it. I'm just skeptical until they actually achieve scaling of their tech. Essentially, based on all the prior dashed hopes and unmet expectations, the burden of evidence is quite high.

We shall see.