“The quantum processor is like the size of a quarter. The rest of it's the size of two or three refrigerators to house it and keep it cool at like barely above zero degrees Kelvin.”
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Cordova: Quantum computing's hard science is solved; the remaining challenge is engineering
“The hard science problems have been solved, but how do you build a superconducting qubit, and how do you Send it a radio frequency data to program it. The hard part now is is going through all the different ways that these things can be hooked together to buil…”
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Cordova: Computer scientists do not yet know all quantum-solvable problem classes
“One of the surprising aspects of quantum computing is that scientists and mathematicians and computer engineers don't really know all of the problems that can be solved by a quantum computer. We just know some of them, and that's not How classical computing wo…”
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Cordova: Folding@home algorithm became the primary method for protein folding
“And the interesting thing about that, at least my recollection of it, is that No one thought that algorithm would work. It didn't look anything like the previous algorithms except that it was also doing some kind of chemistry that was interesting. And then the…”
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AssertionSupported
Cordova: Near-term quantum computers run in 100-microsecond bursts
“Unlike classical computers, which you can kind of run for days and weeks, Or in perhaps years at a time, quantum computers kind of run in bursts of a hundred microseconds.”
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Cordova: Superconducting quantum circuits rely on standard semiconductor fabs
“The superconducting circuits we made are using standard semiconductor manufacturing technologies.”
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