Amazon joins quantum race with ‘cat-qubit’ powered chip

Amazon has become the third technology giant within several months to announce a penetration in quantum computing – a technique that promises tremendous power but suffers from technical difficulties.

The company revealed Ocelot on a typical chip based on “Cat Qubit” technology – an approach that derives its name from the famous “Schrödinger’s cat”.

The chip seeks to process one of the largest stumbling blocks for the development of quantum computers – which makes them free from errors.

Amazon, who has taken with the last breakthroughs in the industry, says that its work is that useful quantum computers are likely to be with us sooner than he had previously thought.

But how quickly these machines are strong enough to be practically useful for a group of commercial applications that are a matter of discussion among experts.

The Oscar of the Pintep Amazon Web Web (AWS) of the Call California Institute of Technology, where the work was carried out, to the BBC that the last progress means “an aggressive history” for a decade that is now “seems more and more realistic.”

He said, “Five years ago I would have said, perhaps 20 or 30 years,” but added, “This schedule comes a little.”

In the end, AWS, which provides cloud computing services, wants to provide quantum computing services to its customers, but Mr. Painter also said he believes advanced machines can eventually help improve the vast global logistical services of Amazon.

“As you know, a company like Amazon, you can make one percent improvement in it and you are talking about large dollars? Curtain computers can enable you to do this more effectively and more realistic – this is the real value there,” explained.

Computers solve the quantities of problems by exploiting the strange characteristics of the material and energy on very small standards, as shown in quantum physics.

The quantum computers will not replace the alleged “classic” computers, but it promises to be able to solve problems even the most powerful modern computers that cannot achieve new discoveries such as the best batteries and new medicines.

But these capabilities are suspended due to the problem of errors.

Combat computers are very sensitive to noise in their environment – vibrations, heat, electromagnetic interference from mobile phones and WiFi networks, or even cosmic rays and radiation from outer space can cause errors, which then need to be corrected.

CAT QUBITS is one of the attempt to solve this problem by engineering error resistance in the Qubits design it uses.

Qubits are the basic elements of quantum computers, equivalent to bits in computers most of us today.

Cat Qubits was named in honor of Arwin Schrodinger, whose question in the cat box helped in 1935 shed light on some thinking behind the theory of quantum.

Amazon It secures the new slide,, Which has only five cats out of a total of 14 major components, can reduce the costs of correcting quantum errors by up to 90 %, compared to current methods.

Cat Qubits is not exclusive to Amazon, a French company called Alice and Bob Pioneering works have been carried out on technology and continue to develop technology.

Amazon believes that the new Chip provides a way to expand the scope of more powerful machines with this type of scrutiny, but researchers admit that there are many upcoming challenges.

The director of Michael Cutert welcomed the National Center for Computing in the UK to the progress made by Amazon, but he told BBC that he is still seen on the impact that will have the speed through which the industry can develop computers really useful quantity:

“Correction of error is a vital step that is necessary in the long -term development of quantum computing. It is the decisive step that turns quantum computing into a practical and commercial tool that we can use to solve complex problems in chemistry, materials science, medicine, logistics and energy.”

“Part of the challenge is how to efficiently expand revolutionary technology – mechanisms that allow correcting the error without the huge general expenditures in the size of the chip, energy consumption and the complexity of systems really welcome.”

Amazon researchers published the results they reached in a research paper in the scientific journal nature

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Heather West follows the quantum computing industry of Data Data International and has been briefed on the new chip by Amazon before publishing.

Amazon results describe as “offering” instead of penetration.

All three modern ads focused on reducing errors, and told me that the industry is “pivotal” from focusing on the Qubits number to focusing on “the ability to use these systems on a wide range to solve real life problems. Thus, we must be able to solve the error correction within the quantitative systems.”

However, Mr. Painter “100 %” agreed that it will not be easy to expand the scope of experimental systems today.