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Google's Quantum Processor May Achieve Quantum Supremacy in Months
- chr1 7y agoIt would be even more exciting if the device doesn't work for large number of qubits. Several theories (e.g. by 't Hoft, by Smolin) predict that quantum computers should not work when amplitudes become small enough.
- banger180 7y agoDo you have a reference to these theories? Seems interesting
- chr1 7y agoLee Smolins book "einstein's unfinished revolution" is a fairly accessible, and all of his papers are on arxiv, e.g. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.05108.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.05108.pdf Stephen Wolfram has an interesting blog post which is somewhat related https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/what-is-spacetime-really/ https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/what-is-spacetime-re... 't Hoofts book about celular automata interpretation is free at https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319412849 https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319412849 There are several theories predicting collapse of wavefunction which would prevent quantum computers e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_interpretation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_interpretation
- ImGunter 7y agoThis seems intriguing.
- dopylitty 7y agoLuckily for the competition Google will also lose interest in and cancel the processor a few months later to focus on developing a new web chat application or yet another mobile OS.