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If youve ever wondered how an invisibility cloak would work, how to terraform Mars, how to make a forcefield, whether were living in a Matrix-like simulation or how far we are from a working teleportation device, Michio Kaku is your man. In books such as Physics of the Impossible, Physics of the Future and Parallel Worlds, Kaku combines the scientific chops of the theoretical physics professor he is with the gee-wow wonder of a sci-fi geek.

Thats apt for someone who grew up worshipping at the twin altars of Albert Einstein and Flash Gordon. It all started when I was eight, he says. All the newspapers said that a great scientist had died. And they said that on his desk was a manuscript that he could not finish. I was fascinated by that. And so I looked up who was this man who could not finish this book. What was in it? Well, the mans name was Albert Einstein. And that book was to be the theory of everything. An equation perhaps no more than one inch long that would allow us to read the mind of God. Well, I was fixed. I was fascinated. I had to know what was in that book.

When the eight-year-old Kaku (who, by the way, went on to dismay his mother by building a particle collider in the family garage in San Jose for a school science project) found nothing in the library that could explain Einsteins theory to a child, he turned to science fiction. Its all there in the original Flash Gordon series: ray guns, invisibility, extra-terrestrial civilisations, nuclear energy. He is adamant that the two great passions of his life the unified field theory on one hand and science fiction on the other are related to each other.

His new book, Quantum Supremacy, argues here I simplify, but not much that quantum computers are going to be the solution to all mankinds problems, and that shift from the digital to the quantum age will be a greater leap than the original digital revolution. Everything, he says, everything about the economy, medicine, warfare everything is going to be turned upside down. Why? Because quantum computers are unimaginably more powerful than the digital sort.

Digital computers work with bits, noughts and ones, a very crude approximation of reality. But quantum computers use the qubit the state of an atom as a unit of computation. As we know from quantum theory, atoms can point up or down, but also spin: There are infinitely more states than just zeros and ones the digital revolution will look like an abacus. To give a sense of how fast that scales, in 2019 Google reported that its 53-qubit Sycamore computer could solve in 200 seconds a mathematical problem that would take the fastest digital computer 10,000 years to finish. Last year, IBM unveiled a 433-qubit quantum computer. The 1,121-qubit follow-up is due any day, and it hopes to have a 4,000-qubit version working by 2025.

There are infinitely more states than just zeros and ones the digital revolution will look like an abacus

So the field is moving fast. Quantum supremacy the point at which a quantum computer kicks a digital computers ass is in the rear-view mirror. The only problem is that for quantum computers to work, so far, they need to be cooled to very near absolute zero. You have to cool it down to where all the extraneous vibrations and noise are eliminated, Kaku explains. Somebodys burping. Somebodys jumping up and down. A car backfiring a block away would ruin a quantum calculation. A whole range of different approaches are even now competing worldwide to get the edge on making bigger quantum computers faster.

When they get there, though, they will transform everything. Digital computers simply dont have the capacity to model chemical reactions at the molecular level. Quantum computers will. Chemical reactions are mediated by electrons. Electrons are described by waves. Waves are probability, Kaku says. Where are the zeros and ones? Nowhere to be seen. A zero and a one is an approximation, a crude approximation, to a wave. And that wave is the wave of an electron. Why is that important? Because that electron gives you cancer, gives you wellbeing, gives you solar energy, gives you fusion power. Mother Nature is quantum mechanical. The universe is in some sense a quantum computer.

That means, if I understand him rightly, that quantum computers will allow us to do chemistry without chemicals. Everything from batteries to vaccines is currently invented, effectively, by trial and error: but if you can accurately simulate chemical reactions, you dont need bubbling flasks. The secrets of everything from human ageing to photosynthesis (a near 100 per cent efficient quantum process that, Kaku reminds us in tones of wonder, takes place at room temperature) can be unlocked.

Pleasingly, some of the first and most important possibilities he sets out are `very material ones. The century-old Haber Process for making fertiliser out of atmospheric nitrogen has made it possible to feed billions who would not otherwise be alive today, but it consumes fully 2 per cent of all the worlds energy. Quantum computing could give us the ability to fix nitrogen without the huge temperatures and pressures required ushering in a new green revolution.

In the medical domain, quantum computers will be able to analyse how drugs work at a molecular level, model and test new ones without ever going near a patient, and analyse the vast and noisy datasets that will allow medics to spot the outbreak of a new pandemic long before humans could. Kaku envisions quantum computers sniffing out cancer years to decades before tumours form with routine liquid biopsies performed by a smart toilet in your home.

On the cosmic level, as well as predicting asteroid strikes, solar flares, gamma-ray bursts and other planet-threatening nasties, quantum computers will allow us to model the life cycle of stars, create stable fusion reactors, and interpret the flood of data coming out of the successor to the Large Hadron Collider. Quantum computers, he says, are the tools we need to deal with problems in physics whose maths cant be handled by digital computers among them the mind-bending Planck energy (ten to the 29th power: the energy of the Big Bang way beyond anything that we can create on the planet Earth), the mysteries of dark matter(Its very embarrassing that most of the universe is dark matter and we dont know what it is), and even the twisting of space-time beyond the event horizons of black holes, where its thought wormholes to parallel universes may form.

In Kakus account of it, then, there doesnt seem to be a human problem that quantum computers wont be able to fix. The only fly in the ointment, as he mentions not very much more than en passant, is that between here and all the good stuff there are a couple of potential road-bumps.

Quantum computers may indeed get round to abolishing disease, hunger and global warming. But, even leaving aside the control problem when quantum computers give the development of AI a hyper-speed boost, the first thing that theyll do along the way is to make it possible to break by brute force (i.e. sheer computational welly) every form of encryption on the planet. So, potentially, goodbye to all military and civilian secrets, not to mention the secure transactions on which the entire global financial system depends. And with world powers competing to get first-mover advantage in the quantum computing realm, that gives the phrase Quantum Supremacy a geopolitical shading. Isnt that something that worries him just the teeniest little bit?

Yes, he concedes. What branch of the government is most interested in advancements in this technology? Its the CIA. Government agencies are already beginning to issue statements saying: Be prepared, start to make changes now in your behaviour, because when this revolution is in full blast, it means that all your secrets can be read by your next-door neighbour. Were not at the point where we have to worry about this technology every day. But its coming.

The likely defence against this sort of disaster, he says, is use quantum to defeat quantum. Another idea is to have a dual internet: one internet that can never be broken because its all based on laser beams and the quantum principle, and the other one we use, you and me, that can be broken if you have a powerful enough quantum computer. A laser internet, he says, could use quantum principles to incorporate tripwires. Laser beams are polarised, meaning they vibrate in only one plane and that plane changes when they are interfered with: By looking at the change in the direction of the polarisation, immediately you know that somebody is trying to hack into your system and then you can take safeguards to kick them out.

But: Were talking about ten, 15 years in the future when quantum computers are so powerful they can break any code. And then, of course, the CIA has a nervous breakdown trying to figure out all the different ways we can use the quantum principle to defeat the quantum principle. Cross that bridge when we come to it, then.

Quantum Supremacy, along the way, not only explains in laymans terms how these things work, but gives vivid sketches of some of the scientists who have laid the groundwork for the quantum revolution many of whom, such as Stephen Hawking and Richard Feynman, Kaku has met and worked with. The books Acknowledgements has a separate section for the many Nobel Laureates that I have consulted with or interviewed who provided invaluable advice. There are 16 of them. I wonder if Kaku has an idea about what drives physicists at that level.

Well, one thing when you encounter these individuals, he says, is that you have to throw away common sense. Everything you thought you knew about the world is wrong. You have to talk to individuals who are willing to open their minds to the impossible. Ever since we were children, we were told you cannot be two places at the same time. Actually, at the quantum level, you can be in an infinite number of places at the same time. Einstein said, The more successful the quantum theory becomes, the sillier it looks. And its absolutely true. Its a silly theory, but get used to it. The world is quantum mechanical independent of your classical mind.

What branch of the government is most interested in advancements in this technology? Its the CIA

Its not just the wildness of theoretical physics that attracts Kaku, but the aesthetics: the instinct that a profound truth must be beautiful or simple or both remains strong in the field, as witness the fabulous simplicity and generative power of the Schrdinger equation (from which all chemistry proceeds) or, for that matter, E=mc2. Kakus dissatisfaction with the Standard Model of particles which gives us four forces, 12 particles and a boson is, he writes, at least in part because it is such a mess: A theory only a mother could love. Its like putting an aardvark, platypus and whale together with Scotch tape, and calling it natures finest creation.

The proposed successor to the Standard Model is Kakus own academic specialism, string theory, which he calls crazy but the only game in town. Its certainly beautiful. Those of us who work in string theory, we think the final theory is based on music. Music is based on vibrating strings. Each vibration corresponds to a particle, so the electron vibrates this way, a proton vibrates this way and a neutron vibrates this way. Theyre nothing but musical notes.

So physics is the harmonies that you can create on musical forms. Chemistry is the melodies that you can create out of these musical notes. The universe is a symphony of strings, and then the mind of God, the mind of God that Einstein wrote about for the last 30 years of his life, would be cosmic music resonating through hyperspace.

So the ancients idea of the music of the spheres a heavenly symphony arising from the proportions of the planetary bodies in space might after all have been in the right direction? That is the only paradigm rich enough to explain the diversity of everything there is, says Kaku. The atomic theory simply says there are atoms. It doesnt explain why. String theory says its all music. Music that obeys harmonies. And these harmonies are the laws of physics.

He adds: Once I gave a talk at Aspen in Colorado, which is where theoretical physicists go to recharge their batteries, and Richard Feynman was in the audience. I gave an introductory talk on string theory. Feynman was famous for putting down rival theories: one phrase, one slight joke would just send the whole audience laughing and humiliate the speaker. So I was a little bit apprehensive. Feynman was a critic of string theory. He didnt quite think it was philosophically his cup of tea. After I finished my talk he came up to me. And I said, OK, here it comes. He said: This talk was one of the most beautiful talks Ive ever heard. Gorgeous. Maybe its all wrong. But it was gorgeous. I began to realise that, well, the power of beauty will sway some of the greatest minds. So that was rather encouraging knowing that even though I could be wrong, the theory had emotional power to resonate within the human mind.

For Kaku, resonating in the human mind is a blessing but proving it would be the real prize. The way string theory is tested involves lattice quantum chromodynamics: a calculation problem far beyond what digital computers can achieve. Quantum computers, he writes, may be the final step in finding the Theory of Everything.

Im not a computer person. Im a theoretical physicist, he says. But I got into quantum computers because I realised this may be the only way to quantitatively prove that string theory is correct. String theory exists in the multiverse. That is, we exist perhaps in parallel states which are bizarre, with new laws of physics, but we coexist with them. The way to prove it is with a quantum computer.

Such a proof would shed light on a question that Einstein thought was one of the most profound that could be asked: did God have a choice in making the universe? Einstein thought that there was no choice, says Kaku. The universe had to be this way because any other way it would fall apart. Do you believe in God yourself? I ask him. I believe in the God of Einstein: that the universe in some sense was not an accident, that the universe is not just chaotic that there really is a rhyme or reason to the universe.

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RSA Conference Adi Shamir, the cryptographer whose surname is the "S" in "RSA", thinks folks need to stop worrying about quantum computing breaking encryption algorithms.

Speaking on the annual cryptographers' panel at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week, he opined that in the 1990s he saw three big issues appear on the security industry's radar: AI, cryptography, and quantum computing. Two out of three had delivered, he said, and quantum computing has yet to show promise and won't for decades to come.

99 percent of encrypted messages are junk, he opined. Requests for lunch meetings or banal chat; waste of time to decrypt, and there's so much of it.

The idea that such missives would be a top cracking priority isn't realistic, he reminded the audience. And while important messages might be decoded decades on, the signal-to-noise ratio is going to make throwing a quantum machine at the job a poor way to find real secrets.

He wasn't alone in his skepticism. British mathematician Cliff Cocks, who developed public-key cryptography years before session host Dr Whitfield Diffie and his colleagues came up with the same idea, was somewhat cutting about stories that the Chinese have developed quantum systems to crack current encryption systems.

The Chinese system may work well on very small data sets, he opined, but there's "no evidence whatsoever" that it would work on a larger scale. That said, Anne Dames, IBM zSystems Distinguished Engineer and Cryptographic Technology Architect, argued China's efforts are as good a reason as any to update your public-private keys just to be on the safe side. The longer and more secure the keys the better she opined. There's no harm in using quantum-resistant algorithms, either, we note.

The RSA cryptographer's panel in San Francisco today

"Quantum computers, even if they don't exist today, will do in the next 30-40 years, so we will need to switch keys," she advised, saying the current concerns over quantum cryptography reminded her a lot of blockchain hype.

That said, all the encryption in the world isn't going to help you defend against insider threats. It's been ten years since an IT contractor called Edward Snowden managed to walk off with the NSA's crown jewels, and the latest Pentagon leak is alleged to have involved a guy showing off classified information on Discord to impress friends. This showed the systems we use are still critically weak, Diffie argued.

Shamir argued Snowden was a short-term and long-term disaster for the NSA, and diminished America's influence by exposing directly long-suspected practices - such as the presence of backdoors in commercial products - for which no evidence had previously been available. Quantum computers breaking encryption could deliver similar revelations, Shamir opined, but it's a way off doing so.

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Nature isnt classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, youd better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly its a wonderful problem because it doesnt look so easy, remarked Richard Feynman, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist with a cult status, at a lecture at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1982. This lecture later published as a paper under the title Simulating Physics with Computers in which Feynman proposed the development of different, more powerful computers by utilising the quantum mechanical properties of matter, is often considered the original idea behind quantum computers.

Four decades later, quantum computers have become a reality, though they are yet to do anything meaningful. Getting quantum computers to realise their full potential and perform tasks impossible or impractical for the conventional computers is one of the hottest areas of research. Last week, India decided to join in this global effort in a big way, by setting up a Rs 6,000 crore National Mission on Quantum Technologies and Applications. Development of homegrown quantum computers is one of the major objectives of the mission.

Not just another fast computer

Quantum computers are not just the next generation of faster and more efficient computers. Conventional computers, when they are more powerful and have much higher capabilities, become supercomputers. But these perform their tasks in the same way as the normal home computers or mobile phones do. Quantum computers are fundamentally different in the way they handle and process information. They are meant to be useful in some very specific situations where the traditional ways of computing are inadequate. For more mundane uses, like playing a video or browsing the internet, quantum computers would not offer any significant advantage over conventional computers.

If conventional computing is compared to the task of climbing up the stairs of a tall building, a more powerful computer would mean getting a fitter or healthier person to climb. The fitter person can probably go faster and a few storeys higher, but would eventually get exhausted. Using the elevator is a fundamentally different way of accomplishing the task. There is a significant gain in speed, but the main advantage is the ability to access floors that would be out of reach, or extremely inefficient to climb, for any person. At the same time, in certain situations, like when only the first couple of floors are to be reached, the elevator might not offer any great advantage.

Quantum properties

While elevators rely on machines and electricity to perform a task too difficult for human beings, quantum computers exploit the very special properties of matter in the sub-atomic world for calculations beyond the capabilities of ordinary computers.

Small particles, the size of atoms or its constituents like protons or electrons, exhibit a number of strange properties that go entirely against our everyday experiences. For example, these particles can exist at multiple locations at the same time, a phenomenon called superposition, but only till no one is looking. The moment they are observed at one place, they cease to exist at all other places. Then there is the property of entanglement, the ability of a particle to instantaneously influence the behaviour of another with whom it had an earlier interaction, even when they are separated by arbitrarily great distances. Research on entangled particles won the Physics Nobel last year.

Conventional computers store and process information in bits. A bit is the smallest unit of data that computers can handle. It can take just two values 0 or 1 but only one of these at a time. A zero would result in a certain set of instructions to be carried out, while a one would lead to a different set of instructions. All data in computers, including text, pictures and videos, are broken down into a sequence of zeros and ones for purposes of storage and processing, and can be reconstructed from these.

A two-bit system in a conventional computer can have four states (0,0), (0,1), (1,0) and (1,1) but again only one at a time. To go through each of these four states, the computer has to take four steps. A more powerful computer can speed up the process, but it would still have to go through the four steps.

This is where the quantum computer starts to do things differently. Superposition makes it possible for the quantum bit, or a qubit as it is called, to exist in both 0 and 1 state simultaneously. Counter-intuitive as it may appear, it can be 60 per cent 0 and 40 per cent 1 at the same time, or any other combination. Similarly, the two-qubit system can be in all four states at the same time some part (0,0), some part (0,1), some part (1,0) and remaining (1,1). What it means is that a quantum computer can go through these four states in one step, unlike the conventional computer that requires four steps.

Not yet perfect

As more qubits are added, the processing capability of the quantum computer increases exponentially. With just a few qubits, say 50, quantum computers can outpace traditional computers that perform a couple of billion operations per second. Tasks that conventional computers would take millions of years to finish can become a matter of seconds with a quantum computer. Such tasks are found in a variety of domains, like internet and data security, and health research. And this is where the main use cases of quantum computers lie.

However, it is not all straightforward. Apart from the challenges in building a quantum computer requirements of very cold temperatures and extreme isolation there is a significant risk of errors. The parallel processing happening in superposition states all lead to different results, only one of which is correct or desirable. In other situations, when the superposition breaks down, the final outcome is randomly selected from the range of possibilities. But this would make quantum computer totally useless. Error correction, and the ability to guide the computer to produce the correct result as the most favoured option, is one of the ongoing areas of active research.

The mission in India

The excitement in the scientific community about the Quantum Mission is because it allows India to join a global technology development race when it is still in the nascent stages. We are in the game. We have rarely been in the game (with regard to other technologies). Work on quantum technologies has been going on in India for the past 10 years, more vigorously in the last four-five years, whereas groups in some other countries have been working for close to three decades. We have some catching up to do, but this mission will help us do that. We have a fairly large pool of people with the right skills, said Rajamani Vijayaraghavan of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) who will play an important role in the computing node of the mission.

Several scientific groups in the country are already working on quantum computers and related technologies. A collaborative effort of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is developing a 7-qubit quantum computer. Much more powerful quantum computers, having a few hundred qubits, have been developed in some other countries, though none of these have yet performed calculations beyond the capabilities of regular computers. One objective of the mission is to build a 1,000-qubit computer in the next eight years.

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LEESBURG, Va., April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Computing Inc. ("QCI" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: QUBT), a first-to-market full-stack photonic-based quantum computing and solutions company, today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with AI firm millionways to demonstrate the power of artificial intelligence when combined with Quantum Computing Inc.'s Reservoir Quantum Computing (RQC).

The goal of the partnership is to explore and determine the business value of the combination of millionways' AI algorithms and QCI's existing RQC systems using audio files to produce an emotional scoring capability. If successful, the companies will develop a joint marketing and business development plan to pursue commercial opportunities.

millionways, a New York City based technology firm, is a leader in the development of AI algorithms used to effectively provide next-gen feedback to users on their emotional IQ and personality insights. Emotionally-intelligent AI can be continuously fed with speech entries like a diary, recognizing patterns and unconscious moods within speech and returns individual personality analysis to the user based on science and empathy. Currently, millionways' progressive emotionally-intelligent AI platform develops algorithms utilizing various forms of text, similar to others in the marketplace today. However, the real breakthrough for the AI platform is expected to occur when its emotionally-intelligent platform can respond to voice. QCI's RQC can process audio files and enable the emotional intelligence to directly process a whole new medium of voice, creating applications that will expand AI into useful business and personal consumer uses.

"This is the first joint commercial application of our reservoir computing technology. Over the past few months, we have done lots of internal tests on our systems, which has built our confidence in the opportunity of transforming the world of AI with quantum," stated Robert Liscouski, QCI's CEO. "The market is already familiar with what ChatGPT and other AI algorithms can do with classical computers. Using our unique quantum photonic hardware tailored to accelerate AI applications by addressing existing and emerging challenges such as power consumption, cost of systems, demands on training data sizes, and processing speed, we hope to greatly contribute to the growing interest and demand of AI. If we progress as we expect, we should be in the market with a commercialized application or product by year end 2023, if not sooner."

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Reservoir computing is a type of machine learning technique that uses a fixed, random "reservoir" of interconnected nodes to perform computations on input data. The reservoir is a complex dynamical system that has a high-dimensional state space and exhibits nonlinear and chaotic behavior. The input data is fed into the reservoir, which transforms it in a non-linear way, and the output is obtained by reading out a linear combination of the reservoir's states. The key advantage of reservoir computing is that the reservoir can be pre-trained using simple random connections and then used as a fixed feature extractor for a wide range of tasks. Reservoir computing has been successfully applied to a variety of applications, including time-series prediction, speech recognition, image and video processing, and control systems. However, there are limitations to classical reservoir computing, particularly in training the computer, which can take a long time and require a lot of energy.

Quantum reservoir computing is a variation of classical reservoir computing that uses quantum-mechanics, such as superposition and entanglement principles, to create quantum-boosted neural networks. Quantum reservoir computing has a number of significant advantages over classical reservoir computing with, namely, increased connectivity and capacity, decreased training bias, and strengthened security. The photonic systems at QCI also deliver additional benefits of high energy-efficiency, versatility, and scalability.

Dr. Yuping Huang, QCI Chief Quantum Scientist stated, "From the beginning, we have strategically focused all our development efforts on quantum photonics, fully appreciating all the significant advantages over other methodologies and platforms. We hope to take advantage of cutting-edge photonic hardware which is well suited to handling quantum data processing and thereby, a significant cost and time savings. QCI's near term strategic plan is to make our RQC commercially available for the AI community to use and explore many different applications."

"We enthusiastically look forward to team up with QCI to demonstrate how our advanced AI capabilities will benefit from quantum information technologies. millionways has a number of practical capabilities already in the marketplace such as our Emotionally Intelligent AI that helps companies build the right team and develop a strong culture with highly motivated employees using our text-based personality analytics platform," stated Martin Cordsmeier, CEO of millionways. "QCI is one of the leading quantum hardware companies using photonics to create real world solutions. QCI's Reservoir Quantum Computer, with its ability to process audio files will add an incredible dimension to our AI platform and open completely new markets to allow users to interact with voice rather than typing text. Imagine the applications: everything from entertainment to medicine to ensuring that people have someone to talk to when they need to communicate. Elderly users who are isolated and alone would benefit greatly."

Quantum Computing Inc. expects to complete its initial work in the summer of 2023 and will announce follow on plans for collaboration after the results. Preliminary independent assessment by both companies proved highly interesting, though the actual results are expected to be published mid-year upon the conclusion of the proof of concept.

For additional information on the company's suite of solutions, please visit our websiteor contact our team directly.

About Quantum Computing Inc.

QCI is a full-stack quantum software and hardware company on a mission to accelerate the value of quantum computing for real-world business solutions, delivering the future of quantum computing, today. The company is on a path to delivering an accessible and affordable full-stack solution with real-world industrial applications, using quantum entropy, which can be used anywhere and with little to no training. QCI's experts in finance, computing, security, mathematics and physics have over a century of experience with complex technologies ranging from leading edge supercomputing to precision sensors and imaging technology, to the security that protects nations. For more information about QCI, visit http://www.quantumcomputinginc.com.

About millionways

millionways created the world's first emotionally-intelligent A.I. assessment tools, providing next-gen personality insights. Founded in New York, NY in 2017, millionways' disruptive technology is based on first time-digitalized PSI theory, natural language processing, meets several "zeitgeist topics" and can be utilized for B2B and B2C, which makes it a potential - currently untouched - billion dollar market opportunity. millionways was developed, and is continually evolving, through its team of renowned scientists, developers, psychologists, philosophers, deep thinkers, and people who use it. For more information, visit http://www.millionways.me/#/en.

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Quantum computers are likely to be one of the next big leaps in data processing, scaling extremely sophisticated and fast computers down into much smaller computational hardware however, most quantum systems are held back by large cooling systems that are necessary for the machines to operate. Thats where Quantum Brilliance comes in, billing itself as the Intel or Nvidia of quantum computing.

Weve written about Quantum Brilliance before, when the startup snagged $26 million in cash from a pool of funding, contributors of which included the Victorian government and Main Sequence (the venture capital spin-off of the CSIRO). What makes Quantum Brilliance so special is that the startup is compressing quantum computers, which are typically really big (almost room-sized) into modern PC-sized boxes, by using diamond-based devices instead of room-scale cooling systems.

And just recently, the startup achieved a breakthrough and world first the team managed to take a quantum computer outside of a lab environment, configure it to be robust enough to sit in the same room next to a supercomputer, and have the two systems share data and work in tandem towards solving a problem.

Heres why thats a big deal.

The key thing was running a first job where someone could access the supercomputer, and then the supercomputer goes: oh, this is something that has a quantum component. Im going to run stuff on the supercomputer, Im going to send that part of the job then to the quantum computer, get the result back, and then feed it back into subsequent supercomputing,' Quantum Brilliance CTO and co-founder Doctor Andrew Horsley told Gizmodo Australia.

Taking it out of the lab, and its not requiring extra infrastructure to run, you just plug it in and its working. Its not quite a quantum computer in your laptop, but its still a big demonstration for such an early stage of the tech that weve got it in whats really quite an unfriendly environment. A lot of noise fans, a lot of weird electromagnetic noise.

While quantum computers exploit what Horsley calls a physical phenomena that todays computers dont, that of quantum mechanics and the ability to harness quantum physics in processing data, he explained to me that quantum computers will not replace the computers of today entirely. Its more about replacing specific processes or enhancing them with faster, more powerful technology and thats what underlines this latest breakthrough.

We want to make quantum an everyday technology, Horsley said. Ultimately, you open up your laptop, and theres a Quantum Brilliance sticker on it, as well as whatever your CPU is.

Just for clarity, usually when you buy a new PC or laptop, itll come with a sticker (or stickers) somewhere on the casing, indicating your CPU or GPU. Its advertising, but in this context, its more important than that its Horsleys way of saying that your everyday computer may, one day, include a component that leverages quantum technology, because of this achievement.

What will that mean for the average user? Well, though we know quantum computers can offer much more computational power than modern computers, the reality is that we just dont know yet but we have a good idea.

So an example there is, at the moment, for a robot to understand human speech, its very hard. At the moment you can use big centralised computers, but to actually have it, to cram enough classical computers into a robot or a satellite, you actually dont have enough space to do that, Horsley said.

What quantum can do is give you enough computing density to cram it into the size, weight and power consumption budget of something at the edge. So, your laptop, a robot or a self-driving car, so that its actually smart enough to actually understand you and interface with you in a more natural way.

Horsleys analogy, coming back to the physical phenomena, is that its similar to when electricity was first harnessed and completely changed the world and how we did things in the 19th Century. The idea that quantum computing could make systems of all types smarter, faster and more powerful, even at the consumer level, is attractive, to say the least.

We wont know what the applications are right now. Its kind of like standing in the 1950s, imagining what youd do with a smartphone. But we can think about a few of these early ones, and its enough to get excited about, Horsley added.

Quantum Brilliances focus going forward is to keep compressing quantum technology and integrating it with modern computers, working with industry partners like the Pawsey Supercomputer Centre in Perth and Nvidia.

Horsley said the startup has a head start on making the tech smaller because of the earlier mentioned diamond-based cooling systems. Large helium-based or laser-assisted cooling systems arent necessary, allowing the tech to keep being scaled down which is a crucial point, because to make sure quantum computers function as optimally as possible, their environments need to be exceptionally controlled.

The startup is gearing up for a quantum future, where its everyday tech and this latest achievement is one of the first steps towards this vision.

This is showing that quantum computing can be made simple and robust enough that you can take it out of a lab and put it next to a supercomputer and have them naturally start talking to each other Its that first hello world moment that shows the progress that were making in understanding the software environment and developing robust hardware that we can start bringing quantum ultimately to consumers, Horsley said.

As written above, its still early days for quantum computing, but Im certainly warming to the idea of having a Quantum Inside sticker on the side of my PC.

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