Chapter 221: Quantum Computers

Quantum theory is a concept that has only been born in the last 100 years, and it has laws that are very different from ordinary people's cognition, and even many of them are regarded as "whimsical" inferences, but because of its logical self-consistency, as well as a lot of cosmic observations, microscopic world experiments brought about by facts, quantum theory has become one of the most cutting-edge sciences so far.

Even in the past 100 years, there are still very few practical quantum products, and the quantum computers and quantum entanglement communications imagined by mankind are still in the laboratory and have not fallen into the application.

Even so, everyone sees the impact of quantum on the future of mankind, for example, a quantum computer will theoretically have more than 10,000 times the computing speed of the same generation of silicon crystals and carbon crystal chips; For example, quantum entanglement communication can ignore the distance of time and space, and directly complete real-time calls on planets separated by several light years.

When the East Galaxy Company accepted the inheritance of the Church of the Old Gods, it once found equipment suspected of being a quantum computer, and it seemed to be quite mature, and even in terms of computing speed, it was the same magnitude as the supercomputers hosted by Nana, White Lotus, and Joan of Arc, but it was much smaller in size.

The reason why the Church of the Old God was able to make a breakthrough in quantum computers, the researchers discussed afterwards that it may be that the Deep Diving Mother Unknown was originally caused by the use of quantum space to give orders, so it is not the fault of the East Galaxy Company, but simply because this is a strong project of the Church of the Old God or the unknown.

Regardless of the level of quantum technology that is not known, anyway, the quantum computer that owns the Church of the Old God has now been mastered by the East Galaxy Company, just like the free lighthouse country that got the V2 rocket blueprint after the end of World War II, and in less than 20 years, it will complete a series of aerospace achievements one after another, which will accelerate the speed of quantum technology.

Thus in recent years. The Basic Science Group of the research department has set up a large team to develop not only quantum computers, but also a range of quantum technology products.

In the past, the East Galaxy Company did not have any accumulation in this area, so it had to start from scratch and be down-to-earth. Therefore, the first research is the quantum annealing machine, which is called the most primitive quantum computer, and unlike the 01 binary computer composed of logic gate switches, its smallest computing core is the quantum annealing gate.

It's a pretty strange thing, and a lot of people don't understand what it is, but in short, when you enter the parameters, it's not using mathematical rules to do the binary operations, but letting nature do the calculations.

As for why nature calculates on its own. When it comes to the quantum tunneling effect, it is estimated that it will take a while, and I will not go into detail here, but we must know that the quantum annealing algorithm has specific conditions, and it is not possible to use it to complete the operation for any problem, and the algorithm of the operation must be reconstructed before it can be run.

In general, even the quantum annealing machine is an extracognitive concept that ordinary people cannot access at all, and it will be extremely obscure to understand. It was only around 2015 that a series of quantum annealing machines were born. AND DWAVE, A PROVIDER OF COMMERCIAL QUANTUM COMPUTERS.

Now, 25 years later, mankind is still in the stage of quantum annealing, but the technology is much more mature, at least when it comes to solving specific problems, the efficiency is 10,000 times that of ordinary computers. It can be seen that quantum technology is definitely not so easy to break through.

The research department of East Galaxy Company has a group of professional researchers in physics and computer science. For this already relatively mature product, it took them less than a few months to catch up with the most advanced quantum annealing machine of today's five rogues.

The next step is critical, how to generalize quantum computers? The answer given by scientists is quantum superposition.

The concept of quantum superposition is that when a normal person browses a web page containing 10,000 products, he has to start with the first one. And then the second, then the third... Until all the pages are browsed in order, including the order in which the brain processes the information, it is also one by one.

Quantum superposition is different, if you plan to do this, the quantum computer will first copy you 10,000 points, directly in 10,000 parallel worlds, so that you spend 1/10,000 of the time, and you will directly read the whole content.

This is just a figurative metaphor, which is more cumbersome and more difficult to realize, and it is precisely because of this that quantum annealing will be a shortcut to such a fork on the road of quantum computer development.

However, they found that the quantum computer of the Church of the Old God was actually based on quantum superposition, which meant that they had to abandon the quantum annealing machine and return to the original path if they wanted to continue their research.

Because they have physical objects, they can directly copy, and the research team spent half a year to get a disassembled quantum computer in its original state, so that they not only gained a lot of valuable experience, but also figured out the key technical bottleneck of the quantum computer - the manufacturing principle of quantum logic gates.

They discovered an astonishing fact, the core of the quantum computer of the Church of the Ancient God turned out to be a patchwork of unknown functional modules, which was essentially a piece of biological tissue, and it was easy to realize the quantum computer.

If the Church of the Old Gods dares to do this, it may not be the case for the East Galaxy Company, and there are many forbidden matters involving the unknown, especially if they plan to further study and cultivate new unknowns as raw materials for their computers, they will have to think more.

Therefore, the research work was delayed for a long time, and when the researchers came up with a purely human creation modeled after the functional modules, replacing the original biological tissue, the research on quantum computers was finally on the right track.

In 2042, Cao Chuan's office will have an extra quantum computer, which is specially prepared for Nana, and the cost is only 2.5 billion, with a computing speed equivalent to 1 billion billion. Of course, it is only for the problem of chaotic logic with ambiguous logic and ambiguity, if it involves strict mathematical operations, it is still the traditional von Neumann structure binary computer with carbon crystal chips that has the advantage.

Cao Chuan checked the computer and easily mastered how to use it, in order to facilitate their own use, the researchers would definitely not be like 100 years ago, when the computer was born, through the backward way of cassette input, the corresponding special keyboard and mouse, or brainwave input equipment were prepared early.

At the same time, the computer comes with the most primitive BIOS, operating system, which even includes the most common software tools such as minesweeper, calculator, drawing, WORD, etc. If you want it to do anything, you can do anything with it through an assembly-like language called Q++, which can go straight to the hardware level of a quantum computer. (To be continued.) )