In order to obtain quantum computing, the proposal is dangerous when you press the advantage
The fresh claim that D-Wave has achieved a “quantum advantage” on the company’s criticism of the company and the scientific process itself
D-Wave, Palo Alto, a California technology company, Wednesday scientific market scientific market on Wednesday A breakthrough in quantum computing. But for some experts, the company claims are landing with a thud.
What did the waves do?
In a paper Published Science, Andrew King showed a group of more than 60 people targeted by a D-Wave scientist. It happens when a quantum computer solves the problem that would be impossible for a classic computer. Quantum computers Powers that can crush their number from quantum divisions or utilk. Unlike regular binary options of classic computers, they use 1 to 0, utilities can use 0, 1 and any increase. Classic computers manage calculations such as an assembly line, bit bit bit. Quantum computers can use carefully orchestrated quilitas, ways that classic computers cannot increase the speed and width of some calculations in exponentially.
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The company’s QUIT-packaged advantages2 using a quantum processor, the D-Wave team simulated in detail how physical transitions occur within magnetic materials. In manufacturing smartphones and other advanced electronic devices. According to a company Press releaseThe feats shows advantage2 chip “Magnetic materials simulation in minutes a million years ago and more than one million electricity consumption using a classic supercomputer.”
What happened next?
D-Wave’s stock price rose on the same day in trade, and ads brought hard advertisements for various quantum computing companies, such as quantum computing, ionq, quantum arqit and rigetti computing. Such ups and downs are part of Continuous increase in quantum sharesD-Wave’s stock price Over the past year and rigetti computing and quantic computer science values shared more than the quadraments at the time.
Is it legit?
The other prone behind these multibillion-dollar market movements is more disturbing trend. Loud declarations of different types of quantum advantages are not new: made by Google Such a claim In 2019, and IBM He made another In 2023, for example. But these ads and others used others to use external researchers after all Classic classical computer techniques to Achieve similar performance. D Wowl, some of the resolutions also came before a Science Paper publication, as other groups responded Preliminary report of work The prepress appeared in the Arxiv.org server in March 2024. An analysis of the preprint, sent to ARXIV.ORG, on March 7, show Similar calculations processing in a regular laptop only two hours. The second footprint of another group presented on March 11 show How to calculate D-Wave’s papers had more sugar time with computational resources that could take several days.
In response, the King of D-Wave said New scientist In fact, though these classic feats have “tremendous progress”, the companies were in a hurry and incomplete to refuse the claims of quantum advantage. “We didn’t do all the problems,” he said. “They didn’t do all the sizes we did, they didn’t do all the observers we did, and they didn’t do all the simulation tests we have made.”
Why this topic
Achieving a practical quantum advantage of real and practical has a huge implications Better designing pharmacies and electronics Flipping encryption schemes Which is dependent on the national defense and the global financial system. Is something so damner It almost could be almost impossible for wealth and power, the first, so it’s a tough competition.
Critics say, this participation fight is still leading to an irregular way to play in a scientific process or playing field. Although it may simply be the science itself, the temptation to overcome the excess results of the markets is almost irresistible There may be disastrous results For the health of the field, when they mix the claims on claims, Qubit investors financially create financial bubbles. “This model is a computational physicist of Giuseppe Carleo (EPFL), Giuseppe Carleo (EPFL).
Quantum hype cycle
Carleo says that some important magazines promote the quantum community has been an overall impression Bombastic claims Providing the process of reviewing more helpful and faster from famous corporate teams. Most media then cover these alleged advances sharply, but often slim does not have the following cancellation. “This is even more problems, because the hype fuel is quantum,” he noted. “These magazines do not have the same visibility to scientific voices in disagreement with this way of science.” From many quantum advantages of the last refutions, Carleo adds, “No one has entered the publication Nature Or similar height magazine …. And this time it will also be with the D-Wave experiment. “(Nature and American scientific Springer are part of nature.)
However, Carleo says: D-Wave, Google, IBM and the results of others do nothing. “They are good advances in computational physics.” Rather the problem is to declare quantal advantages. “All classic methods” Jipoite claims “is very difficult to justify scientifically,” he said, because “man is impossible to run all They are classic cutting methods of a particular problem compared to some quantum methods. “
Can Quantum Hype Cycle Break? This will take the combination of scientists, publishers, journalists, and investors in combination and ethics. That’s the problem that may be harder than wrangling quals.
Editor’s note (03/25/25): This article was described based on the wave and edited to better clarify the quantum computer.
