I'm always amazed by Quantum Computing ❤
I'd like to see some shorts on more advanced topics. I do like watching the longer form videos, but sometimes I'd like my quantum fix and don't have an hour
I saw a tour of a quantum computing facility years and years ago, and they were processing on a scale so small that lasers were used to stabilise the chip against its own resonant frequencies at the atomic level, and those lasers were liquid nitrogen cooled, and other lasers were used to read the temperature because the interference of the photons (which is insane to think about) could be interpreted to get a reading accuracy read in scientific notation. AND the output was interpreted as a GUESS AT BEST (at least as well as my understanding of quantum superposition theory could interpret what the scientist was really saying. I'm a trekie, give me technobabble that realy does mean nothing.) But it's all of THAT junk that's enormous. And it will never not blow my mind that the technology exists, or the physics gymnastics that have to be performed to do it, or that we can do that at all!
False, it‘s zero point extraction and noise cancellation layered in a gyroscope.
Any internships for high school students in QC?
If you got no system stabilisation you've functionally got no computer. So yes, quantum computers are in fact fairly large. No one would go to a data center or even a home PC and say "Your computer isn't actually big, the chip itself is just as big as your thumbnail. It's the case and the fans and the hard drives that make it big" without being commonly considered a) wrong and b) a know-it-all. The chip is just one part of the whole system humans refer to as "computer", your car simply isn't the size of the engine just because it's the engine which makes it go...
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