Quantum computing has the potential to remodel industries starting from drug discovery to logistics, however an enormous barrier standing between at present’s quantum units and helpful functions is noise. These disturbances, launched by environmental interactions and imperfect {hardware}, imply that at present’s qubits can solely carry out tons of of operations earlier than quantum computations irretrievably deteriorate.
Although seemingly inevitable, noise in quantum {hardware} will be tackled by so-called logical qubits – collections of tens, tons of and even hundreds of precise bodily qubits that enable the correction of noise-induced errors. Logical qubits are the holy grail of quantum computing, and quantum {hardware} builder Infleqtion at present printed groundbreaking work that used the NVIDIA CUDA-Q platform to each design and reveal an experiment with two of them.
These logical qubits had been used to carry out a small-scale demonstration of the so-called single-impurity Anderson mannequin, a high-accuracy strategy crucial for a lot of vital supplies science functions.
This constitutes the primary time {that a} demonstration of a supplies science quantum algorithm has been carried out on logical qubits. The creation of only a single logical qubit is extraordinarily difficult. Infleqtion was capable of obtain such a feat due to correct modeling of its quantum pc utilizing CUDA-Q’s distinctive GPU-accelerated simulation capabilities.
Having developed and examined its whole experiment inside CUDA-Q’s simulators, with solely trivial modifications, Infleqtion may then use CUDA-Q to orchestrate the experiment utilizing the precise bodily qubits inside its Sqale impartial atom quantum processor.
This work units the stage for quantum computing’s transfer towards large-scale, error-corrected techniques.
Many scaling challenges nonetheless stand between at present’s quantum units and enormous techniques of logical qubits, which is able to solely be solved by integrating quantum {hardware} with AI supercomputers to kind accelerated quantum supercomputers.
NVIDIA continues to work with companions like Infleqtion to allow this breakthrough analysis wanted to make accelerated quantum supercomputing a actuality.
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