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Is there proof that the D-wave (one) is a quantum computer and is effective?
There is still a search for problems where the D-Wave shows improvement over classical algorithms. One might recall media splashes where the D-Wave solved some instances $10^8$ times faster than a ...
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Why must quantum computers be kept near absolute zero?
Well, first, not all systems must be kept near absolute zero. It depends on the realization of your quantum computer. For example, optical quantum computers do not need to be kept near absolute zero, ...
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Who built the first quantum computer using at least two qubits?
What is a qubit? And what is a quantum computer? Any claim about about which is first will depend on our definitions.
One suggestion might be the 1981 experiment by Aspect, Grangier and Roger to ...
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Changing one qubit causes changes in another independent qubit on ibmqx2 in IBM Q Experience
Thanks for pointing this out! It turns out that this device was mis-calibrated in a way that was leading to that behavior. We just fixed the calibrations, so the problem should be gone now. I ...
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What is the longest time a qubit has survived with 0.9999 fidelity?
Well, for the longest coherence time ever, I'm finding this Science from 2013 entitled Room-Temperature Quantum Bit Storage Exceeding 39 Minutes Using Ionized Donors in Silicon-28, which indicates ...
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What is the status of confirming the existence of anyons?
It depends what you mean by the 'existence' of anyons.
One way is to engineer a Hamiltonian which leads to quasiparticles (or other defects) that have anyonic statistics. This will require the ...
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Is there proof that the D-wave (one) is a quantum computer and is effective?
Is there proof that the D-wave (one) is a quantum computer and is effective?
D-Wave Video - Offers an explanation of: "How do we know ...": https://youtu.be/kq9VqR0ZGNc
One analogy you might make ...
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Who built the first quantum computer using at least two qubits?
It's difficult to define the point where an experimental setup is a quantum computer. But the crucial feature of a quantum computer is that it's able to perform a quantum computation. The first ...
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Scalability of ion trap quantum computers
You may want to check out this Schaetz et al, Reports on Progress in Physics of 2012 "Experimental quantum simulations of many-body physics with trapped ions" (alternate link in semanticscholar). In ...
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Scalability of ion trap quantum computers
While I’m not an experimentalist, and have not studied these systems in any great depth, my (crude) understanding is the following:
In ion traps you (more or less) have to trap the ions in lines. ...
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Quantum simulation of environment-assisted quantum walks in photosynthetic energy transfer
One major idea there seems to be that the "environment" (quantum
decoherence) assists or optimizes the transport of a signal
The idea that photosynthetic systems are doing a Grover search or ...
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Is "probabilitistic,universal, fault tolerant quantum computation" possible with continuous values?
To start off, I would really suggest you to read this review on "Quantum information with continuous variables(cv)". It covers most of your questions with cv architecture. Since it is a very big ...
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Changing one qubit causes changes in another independent qubit on ibmqx2 in IBM Q Experience
This was a readout crosstalk error that has now been resolved.
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Does it make sense to compare different quantum computer technologies?
At this stage it most certainly matters which technology you use, and in particular which circuit you wish to execute.
Although all of your mentioned technologies implement universal gates, the ...
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Passive improving of nanodiamond surfaces for NV centers?
I have worked with NVs in nanodiamonds a little bit, and you are totally right, surface characteristics have a huge influence on how far we can push them. There are definitely multiple groups working ...
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Which is the highest number factorized by QC in a non-specific experiment?
The answer is $N = 200\,099$.
Shor's algorithm is not the only way to factorize integers. In fact, it is also possible to factorize integers with an optimization approach. This approach even allows ...
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What is the status of confirming the existence of anyons?
A more definite claim of detection of abelian anyons appeared in 2020:
H. Bartolomei et al.: "Fractional statistics in anyon collisions", Science 368, 173-177 (2020) (arXiv:2006.13157)
J. ...
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State of the art gate speeds and decoherence times
I guess your best shot would be to look for experimental comparisons like this
one on Arxiv.
But I am not aware of a tracking. I do not think we can consider having a "state of the art" in this ...
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What is the longest time a qubit has survived with 0.9999 fidelity?
Answer: Fidelity of 0.9999 at 1.08 seconds in 2013: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/342/6160/830.full?ijkey=uhZaDNPnwgTdA
More details: The $T_2$ was 180 minutes, or 3 hours.
What about the ...
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Can one interrogate black boxes for quantum coherence?
Why not input one half of a maximally entangled state as the input to the black box (so that half has the same dimension as the input dimension)? Then you could test your favourite measure, such as ...
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Improving probability of spontaneous parametric down conversion
Your question asks two questions that are less-related than you might hope.
First, how do we increase the probability of down-conversion occuring?
This is fundamentally a question about material ...
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Rotating about the y- or z-axis of the Bloch sphere
For superconducting qubits, x and y rotations are usually both done with microwave pulses, and as you said the phase of the pulse determines the rotation axis. See mathematical details in this Physics ...
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Breakthroughs in quantum computing using non-standard quanta
The only two quasi-particle quanta for which I know there to be active research in quantum computing are phonons and anyons.
Phonons: That state-of-the-art is given my answer here: Phononic Quantum ...
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What is the significance of recent demonstration of a passive photon–atom qubit swap operation?
This does not warrant a new type of gate. When we write down quantum circuits, each 'wire' corresponds to a single qubit. However, we do not (usually) specify what technology any of these qubits is ...
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Quantum Supremacy: Some questions on cross-entropy benchmarking
That seems to restrict the output probability distributions of all quantum circuits to rather high entropy distributions.
The output of a typical randomly chosen quantum circuit is rather high ...
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Quantum Supremacy: Some questions on cross-entropy benchmarking
After some further consideration I think it's quite clear that the only probability mass function evaluated in the computation of $\mathcal{F}_{\text{XEB}}$ is that of the classically computed ideal ...
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Simple program produces consistently skewed results in IBM Q Experience
It seems like the skew is indeed high on qubit 0. I ran a single Hadamard followed by measure on this qubit, and see about 13% skew. The other qubits on this device seem fine (less than 2% skew).
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