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horse

Colonel
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This video, talking about the Chinese quantum computer, I think is decent, but I think he is wrong about a couple of things.

I think the system demonstrated is far more advanced that anyone expected.

What needs to be done, is to improve the engineering, to make the shooting of photons more precise, which is quite amazing as it is.

The other project to do, is to reconfigure the operation of the system. What you want is this system is to do a simple loop, nest those loops, and now you got a brute force attack against passwords. The experiment they did in China, the instruction set of the system for the Boson sampling seems a lot more complicated than the instruction set for a loop.

Another couple of points I found fascinating, as speaking as a non-technical person, is the material science that was used. That probably stuff all is a state secret.

The other point worth mentioning is on the lab itself, we got to see its setup. Imagine that, we got to see the layout of the system, and there was no reason to show anybody anything.

I heard that this thing is scalable, that means if they improve the measuring techniques and splitting of photon, this system needs that to turn operational to crack passwords. I really do not believe that is too far away. If you do not know what this means, just look up quantum computer cracking passwords.


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AssassinsMace

Lieutenant General
It makes you wonder why Google went the more complex route. Is it because simply they didn't think of it? So where does democratic values play here when it comes to innovation as they're always telling China? Now the US is openly alarmed at China, not because of acts of aggression against others, but because of China's advancements in technology. That's not a crime. So connecting innovation and democracy was just a ruse so an "open" China meant they could have influence and it would be purely self-serving and nothing good for the Chinese people.
 

horse

Colonel
Registered Member
It makes you wonder why Google went the more complex route. Is it because simply they didn't think of it?
It is the material science that was important in the Chinese experiment with their quantum computer.

What Google, IBM, and a few other American companies did, they went the route of superconducting materials, which should be the path that the particle would travel on. Of course, this is material science too. Here I am just talking out of my ass, so I will try to keep this short.

The particle, see I don't know what the particle is called, what happens in the Google experiment, is that a microwave I believe, it fires one particle into the superconducting materials which are super cold. These particles might be split, which gives them their quantum state of superposition, along with entanglement.

This type of experiment, is inherently unstable. They do not know where the single particle is going, and they have to measure it.

The Google experiment, the microwave particle travels along their superconducting materials because that is all they had.

The UTSC experiment, a single photon of light is fired from a laser then split, giving that photon, now a pair, its quantum qualities. So this photon, a particle of light, goes through their tubes and crystals and is measured. They did it this way because that is all they had.

Note that we must understand a few things can produce a quantum nature to it of superposition and entanglement. So it does not matter what anyone uses, as long as they can measure accurately what they are doing. Measurement seems paramount because quantum mechanics seem inherently unstable.
 

horse

Colonel
Registered Member
So yes, China material science is really advanced.

If other countries had the same materials that the Chinese used in their quantum experiment, they would repeat this experiment almost immediately.

Pan Jianwei said something about it was really difficult to find or build a light source what was always consistent. Well, apparently they did something good enough, along with the splitters and crystals.

Next step is just to improve on the equipment, one of the next steps at least, lol.

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