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Feb 1, 2017

First ever blueprint unveiled to construct a large scale quantum computer

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics, space

A blueprint for QC larger servers mass production. The question is; is it the right blueprint for everyone? Not sure.


An international team, led by a scientist from the University of Sussex, have today unveiled the first practical blueprint for how to build a quantum computer, the most powerful computer on Earth.

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Feb 1, 2017

Blueprint for a microwave trapped ion quantum computer

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

More detailed write up on QC Blueprint introduced this week. It does seem to try to address scalability; however, the real test is when we test a smart device and a small server with the blueprint.


The availability of a universal quantum computer may have a fundamental impact on a vast number of research fields and on society as a whole. An increasingly large scientific and industrial community is working toward the realization of such a device. An arbitrarily large quantum computer may best be constructed using a modular approach. We present a blueprint for a trapped ion–based scalable quantum computer module, making it possible to create a scalable quantum computer architecture based on long-wavelength radiation quantum gates. The modules control all operations as stand-alone units, are constructed using silicon microfabrication techniques, and are within reach of current technology. To perform the required quantum computations, the modules make use of long-wavelength radiation–based quantum gate technology. To scale this microwave quantum computer architecture to a large size, we present a fully scalable design that makes use of ion transport between different modules, thereby allowing arbitrarily many modules to be connected to construct a large-scale device. A high error–threshold surface error correction code can be implemented in the proposed architecture to execute fault-tolerant operations. With appropriate adjustments, the proposed modules are also suitable for alternative trapped ion quantum computer architectures, such as schemes using photonic interconnects.

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Feb 1, 2017

Black holes on an electronic chip

Posted by in categories: computing, cosmology, nanotechnology, quantum physics

Watch out for the black holes in those QC chips.


Eindhoven professor Rembert Duine has proposed a way to simulate black holes on an electronic chip. This makes it possible to study fundamental aspects of black holes in a laboratory on earth. Additionally, the underlying research may be useful for quantum technologies. Duine (also working at Utrecht University) and colleagues from Chile published their results today in Physical Review Letters.

“Right now, it’s purely theoretical,” says Duine, “but all the ingredients already exist. This could be happening in a lab one or two years from now.” One possibility is in the group of Physics of Nanostructures in the Department of Applied Physics. According to Duine, in these labs experiments are being done that are necessary to create this type of black holes.

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Feb 1, 2017

Fear sells in the computer security business, and quantum computers could be very scary

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, particle physics, quantum physics

Interesting article; however, 2 things missing from it. 1) China has already implemented a QC wireless network and in phase 2 of their work on QC communications which is also involving a QC platform and hacking. 2) Author stated that Mosca believes by 2026 a nation state will have QC. I would suggest Mosca network a little more as China and Sydney are well ahead of schedule plus many of us involved in QC already are testing the scalability of QC on small devices and other platforms v. mammoth servers thanks to much of the new findings last year on proving the reliability and traceability of particles at various complex states of entanglement and information processing as well as the more recent findings of enabling the constant cold temperatures needed to support QC on small servers.

My own estimates is we’re within a 5 year window of being able to see a more pragmatic version of QC as servers and networking for the broader masses. I don’t believe we’re 10 years away or less than 5 years at the moment; however, things could change tomorrow to the point we see the timeline shortened from 5 to 3 years as I do have friends who believe we’re within 3 years.


Even though quantum computers don’t exist yet, security companies are preparing to protect against them.

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Jan 29, 2017

Quantum physics is invading biology

Posted by in categories: biological, quantum physics

Love this write up; any time we can show or highlight the convergence between tech & science with bio it truly is a beautiful marriage.


The time has come to apply the ideas of quantum mechanics to biological mysteries.

By Henry Grub

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Jan 29, 2017

Cool U of A physicists sought to work with coldest gas

Posted by in category: quantum physics

Female Physicist at Uand A in Canada to take on the Bose-Einstein condensate.


By Catherine Griwkowsky

Calling Lindsay LeBlanc’s lab work “cool” would be an understatement.

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Jan 29, 2017

Vanishing point: the rise of the invisible computer

Posted by in categories: computing, nanotechnology, quantum physics

Yep; devices and computers will no longer be needed given the advancements that are coming in areas of Quantum, Synbio, nanotech, etc.

However, with QC crystal technology and the work done on parallel states we have some very interesting things coming in communications, entertainment/ media, etc.


The long read: For decades, computers have got smaller and more powerful, enabling huge scientific progress. But this can’t go on for ever. What happens when they stop shrinking?

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Jan 29, 2017

Scientists have confirmed a brand new form of matter: time crystals

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics, time travel

More information on the time crystals to simulate time travel.


Two more teams of researchers have found ways to create time crystals, lattices that repeat not in space but in time, breaking time-translation symmetry.

Though applications are unclear, the research could help us better understand quantum properties and solve the problem of quantum memory associated with quantum computing. Time crystals repeat their atomic structure in time. At the very least, they are a contradiction.

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Jan 29, 2017

Physicists Simulate Sending Particles of Light Into the Past, Strengthening the Case that Time Travel Is Possible

Posted by in categories: cosmology, particle physics, quantum physics, time travel

Awesome! More news on the time crystals.


The source of time travel speculation lies in the fact that our best physical theories seem to contain no prohibitions on traveling backward through time. The feat should be possible based on Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which describes gravity as the warping of spacetime by energy and matter. An extremely powerful gravitational field, such as that produced by a spinning black hole, could in principle profoundly warp the fabric of existence so that spacetime bends back on itself. This would create a “closed timelike curve,” or CTC, a loop that could be traversed to travel back in time.

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Jan 27, 2017

Quantum Breakthrough: Physicists Have Once More Created Time Crystals

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

In Brief

  • Two more teams of researchers have found ways to create time crystals, lattices that repeat not in space but in time, breaking time-translation symmetry.
  • Though applications are unclear, the research could help us better understand quantum properties and solve the problem of quantum memory associated with quantum computing.

Time crystals are strange. At the very least, they are a contradiction. A time crystal is quantum phenomenon that demonstrates movement while remaining in its ground, or lowest energy, state. Essentially a non-equilibrium form of matter, time crystals are lattices that repeat not in space but in time, breaking time-translation symmetry.

When the idea of a time crystal was proposed in 2012 by physicist and Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek, it was only a theoretical possibility that would challenge many of the laws of physics. Then, in October 2016, a team of researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) managed to make a “floquet time crystal.”

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