Scientists Discover a Way to Shrink Quantum Computer Components by 1,000x – Researchers have made a discovery that could make quantum computing more compact, potentially shrinking essential components 1,000 times while also requiring less equipment.

From the article

>A class of quantum computers being developed now relies on light particles, or photons, created in pairs linked or “entangled” in quantum physics parlance. One way to produce these photons is to shine a laser on millimeter-thick crystals and use optical equipment to ensure the photons become linked. A drawback to this approach is that it is too big to integrate into a computer chip.

>Now, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) scientists have found a way to address this approach’s problem by producing linked pairs of photons using much thinner materials that are just 1.2 micrometers thick, or about 80 times thinner than a strand of hair. And they did so without needing additional optical gear to maintain the link between the photon pairs, making the overall setup simpler.

I can’t judge the merits of this article.

My understanding was that temperatures colder than deep space were a *requirement*. I always wondered how, if that were true, the double slit experiment could be performed with sunlight and card board box.

Except we are talking about maintaining highly delicate quantum states while also actively working with them. It can’t possibly be as easy as “oh! Let’s just use photons!”. I mean, it can’t, right?

I feel like this is yet more fake hype, but I dunno. My capability to discern fact from fiction on this subject is rapidly declining with each new grand announcement. I still have yet to see one of these quantum computers actually DO anything.

Gives me hope we’ll be able to buy one for home use and have Matrix like videogames!

Healthy skepticism is always needed for stuff like this but I wanna put it aside and dream that within another 10 years this technology is common place along with some other things I’ve read like Aston University’s 4.5 million times faster internet speed or Shangai University for Science and Technology making a disc that can contain a petabyte!

I’ve honestly felt like technology had hit a bit of a wall these past 10 years or so and would only be seeing incremental improvements but if these discoveries can be utilized we could be seeing another technological revolution where todays best computers look like little calculators in comparison.

Quantum entanglement sounds like quantum enslavement.

Do we argue the ethics of this now?

If not, I wonder how long into the future before we will consider it.

Good going AI , looking forward to all the work other scientists are going to take credit for simply because they understand it. I for one welcome our new AI overlords.

I can’t wait for them to actually find a use for quantum computers.