Haierfa.
The Base of Operations.
After the artificial intelligence Nuwa brought back the alien spaceship from Mars without any damage.
The artificial intelligence Nuwa and Alice had invested a considerable amount of resources into researching the various advanced technologies on the alien spaceship.
Combined with their own scientific and technological information.
It took a few months.
Recently, they finally achieved their first major achievement – a quantum computer.
A 128-bit quantum computer.
Only 128 bits?
Wasn't this number a little too little?
In fact, the 128 bits here had a similar meaning to the "bit" in "32/64-bit operating systems." It referred to a maximum of 128 qubits that could be manipulated at one time.
There were at least a few trillion light qubits in the "quantum computer" that was the size of a refrigerator in front of Chen Jin.
It was just that it could manipulate up to 128 entangled qubits at one time to carry out a series of calculations.
"Nuwa, Alice, as far as I know, the computing power of a quantum computer is 2 to the Nth power. That is to say, the computing power of a quantum computer is 2 to the Nth power. This quantum computer of yours is 128 bits, and its computing power is 2 to the Nth power …"
"By the way, what is 2 to the Nth power?"
Chen Jin looked at the two artificial intelligences in front of him.
"It is 3.4028 times 10 to the 38Th power, which is 30.028 trillion quadrillion times. This computing speed is 340 million times that of Alice and me," Nuwa said.
Wow ~
Chen Jin's jaw dropped. "Such a small piece of equipment is equivalent to more than 300 million sets of yours and Alice's?"
Quantum computers were too awesome!
"You can understand it that way, but quantum computers can't completely replace traditional computers. Its advantage lies in some special mathematical computing fields, such as factorization, solving logarithms, cracking complex encryption systems, building molecular models, particle physics, and even the rendering of collision effects in games … It's a very powerful tool, but it's not omnipotent. You shouldn't overestimate its functions."
"Why can't it do it? I remember some scientists saying that quantum computers can do everything. "Chen Jin was very puzzled.
"That's just some commercial exaggeration."
Nuwa explained, "The situation on Haierfa is similar. In the early stages of the development of quantum technology, as long as it enters the microscopic scale, it seems that everything can be linked to the word 'quantum.' For example, quantum water, quantum television, quantum air purifier, and so on … In reality, it has nothing to do with quantum. It's just a hype concept. It has nothing to do with real quantum technology."
"The true strength of a quantum computer is that it can be used for data processing and communication encryption. The other aspects are lackluster."
"Let me give you a simple example. Traditional computers are composed of three parts: a storage unit, a control unit, and a computing unit. However, quantum computers cannot store data because their state is a superposition of 0 and 1, which is an uncertain state. Our data is definite, so we can only use traditional media to store data."
"Of course, we can add a 'quantum computing module' to the foundation of the traditional computer. It can also be called a 'quantum computer', and it is indeed much more powerful than the traditional computer alone.
"That's why Alice and I are both 'quantum computers' now because we've both added a 'quantum computing module' in the past two days."
He listened to Nuwa's teasing words.
Chen Jin was embarrassed.
Quantum computing was actually not complicated. However, many pseudo-experts and commercial organizations, for their own interests, insisted on making it very complicated. It was confusing and made people feel that it was very sophisticated, as if quantum was omnipotent.
However, there was no question of which would replace the other between a classical computer and a quantum computer. Both had their own strengths and weaknesses. Both could complement each other and complement each other. The emergence of a quantum computer would not cause the decline or elimination of a classical computer.
Both would coexist forever.
Of course, the power of quantum computers could not be denied. Most of the problems in this world could ultimately be attributed to mathematical problems.
The essence of the universe was, in fact, mathematics!
Now, the mathematical computing abilities of artificial intelligence Nuwa and Alice had both increased by 340 million times. This undoubtedly had a huge impact on the development of the Base of Operations and the development of Haierfa.
It even saved a lot of energy.
For example, after Nuwa and Alice were installed with the quantum computing module, most of the complex calculations were handed over to the quantum computing module. Both of them had their energy consumption reduced by more than 50%.
The speed of scientific research in various fields would also be significantly faster.
However, Chen Jin was still not very satisfied.
"Nuwa, isn't 128 qubits a little too few? Why can't it be increased to 256 or 512? Wouldn't the computing power be even more exaggerated?"
"128 is enough, Master."
Nuwa explained, "The more qubits there are, the faster the decoherence (that is, the exit from the entangled state) and the lower the error correction accuracy of the error-correcting code. 128 qubits is more or less just right. It can be very self-sustaining and the error correction rate is also above 99%. It has achieved the best balance.
The quantum module in the computer on the alien spaceship is even only 64-bit. In small-scale usage mode, it means that the Crystal Brainers felt that 64-bit is basically enough. A 128-bit quantum computer can basically solve all mathematical problems … at least for now, it is completely enough. "
Chen Jin nodded.
It was indeed enough for now. If it was found to be insufficient in the future, then he would think of ways to develop a higher-level quantum computer.
And with the quantum computer,
It meant that the Base of Operations had broken through the bottleneck of computing power. It was equivalent to having unlimited "computing power."
It meant that the work progress of all the projects would be greatly accelerated.
Suddenly.
He thought of something.
Chen Jin muttered to himself, "It seems that on Earth, all the powerful countries are developing quantum computers. This year, this country has a breakthrough of 10 qubits. Next year, another country will have a breakthrough of 20. As long as they can reach 50, they will announce that they have achieved quantum hegemony … Currently, the country closest to achieving quantum hegemony is Z country. It is said that they have broken through to 39 qubits. Quantum hegemony is close at hand."
Moreover, he also discovered that in the field of quantum computing, the development on Earth seemed to be particularly fast. Their performance was very eye-catching.
However, Alice said with some disdain, "This kind of hegemony does not have much meaning. There were countries on planet Haierfa who achieved quantum hegemony a long time ago. They even achieved 198 qubits at most. But after a long time, commercial quantum computers can only handle 32 qubits at the same time. Even after 200 years, they have not reached 50 qubits … The future of quantum technology is very bright, but it is very difficult for commercial quantum computers with more than 64 qubits."
It could not even catch up with the growth of computing power of traditional computers.
Therefore, it stayed in the laboratory for a long time.
"Really?"
Chen Jin was a little surprised. A technology with such a bright future actually stayed in the laboratory stage for a long time?
But he still decided to set up a "Quantum Computing Research Center" on Earth. He strived to come up with a commercial quantum computer with more than 50 qubits in one or two years … Quantum hegemony, he was going to take it away.
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