DARPA Research Leads To Groundbreaking Discovery In Quantum Computing. (thedebrief.org)
from nulluser@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world on 05 Jan 2024 11:44
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A team of Harvard scientists working on a project funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced a significant breakthrough in the field of quantum computing.

Researchers working with the Optimization with Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (ONISQ) program say they have created the world’s first quantum circuit using logical quantum bits (qubits). The innovation marks a significant stride towards fault-tolerant quantum computing, promising to revolutionize the design of quantum computer processors.

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PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world on 05 Jan 2024 21:49 next collapse

I know some of those words… the short ones.

oconnordaniel@infosec.pub on 06 Jan 2024 06:22 collapse

I didn’t know DARPA was a thing since it made the internet

qyron@sopuli.xyz on 05 Jan 2024 22:26 next collapse

At a superficial level, I can understand what is being said and what promises such breakthrough carries.

But when I stop and think for a moment on what I truly read I’m left feeling incredibly stupid.

uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 06 Jan 2024 01:22 next collapse

So, can it crack public keys?

ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world on 06 Jan 2024 02:48 next collapse

And if it can, are there any cipher suites that are quantom-proof?

ashok36@lemmy.world on 06 Jan 2024 03:21 next collapse

Almost certainly not yet. But sooner than I’d like. There’s a ton of encrypted comms that have been vacuumed up by state and private actors who are just waiting for quantum computers to get good enough to crack them.

pr06lefs@lemmy.ml on 06 Jan 2024 04:03 collapse

maybe real short ones : )

KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 06 Jan 2024 02:18 next collapse

smells like the groundwork for much more significant progress in the future to me. Assuming i read that correctly, and that the article isn’t just wrong.

Treczoks@lemm.ee on 05 Jan 2024 23:19 collapse

Let’s come back to all of this when all those “quantum breakthroughs” manage to compute anything worthwhile that is not a quantum computer benchmark, but solves a real world problem.