How long’s a femtosecond? Blink and you’ll miss it. A hundred trillion times.
The CEO of a Cambridge-based quantum company declared:“Squabbling about whether we had reached,or indeed could reach,quantum supremacy is now resolved.”
The federal government is backing the push to build the first error-corrected quantum computer within the decade. If achieved,it would put the country at the forefront of the new technology.
New quantum supercomputers aren’t too far off and have the possibility to upend both the internet as we know it and the emerging Web3 space.
Federal Science Minister Ed Husic says lifting government investment in science is a policy priority for the government after 14 years of shrinking research funding pushed the sector into crisis.
Australian scientists believe they have taken a key step towards building a silicon quantum computer – a device that could finally take the technology into mainstream use.
The cutting-edge technology should help reduce delays across the public transport network.
Michelle Simmons,the 2018 Australian of the Year,is so driven to make history in quantum computing that she admits she’s barely noticed the pandemic:“I live in a bubble.”
In the fourth part of our series exploring the science behind sci-fi,we look at wormholes,warp drives and “spooky action at a distance”.
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The most powerful computer in the southern hemisphere will be used to help the NSW government solve Sydney’s public transport problems.