Honeywell Created the World's Most Powerful Quantum Computer

Technology companies have been racing to create powerful quantum computers for some time. quantum computer Honeywell, one of the companies in the development race, announced that it has created the world's most powerful quantum computer. 

In the statement made yesterday by Honeywell, today's the future of supercomputers It was stated that "the world's highest-performance quantum computer" has been developed.

The power of Honeywell's quantum computer comes from its quantum volume

The power of Honeywell's "World's highest performing quantum computer" is high from quantum volume is coming. Quantum volume is the metric introduced to characterize the performance of quantum computers.

Honeywell, the developer of the quantum computer, announced that the new quantum computer to 64 quantum volumes He declared that he had. Honeywell stated that the quantum volume of the new quantum computer is twice as large as the closest alternative in the industry. 

The words "the closest alternative in the industry" in Honeywell's statement refer to IBM's quantum computer. IBM, recently announced that it had developed a quantum computer with 32 quantum volumes. 

Making a statement about the developed quantum computer, Tony Uttley, manager of Honeywell, said that the quantum computer The highest performing quantum computer in the world He once again underlined his assessment that Uttley added that despite the disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the Honeywell team managed to achieve its quantum computer goal. 

Quantum volume was first proposed by IBM in 2017

quantum volumewas introduced by IBM in 2017 as an alternative metric to evaluate the computing power of quantum computers. Before the introduction of quantum volume, companies developing quantum computers were competing with the number of quantum bits of supercomputers, regardless of quality. 

Introduced as an evaluation method in place of the quantum number of bits, quantum volume is a measure of a given system's stability, error proneness, and ease of programming. One important feature of the series It affects. 

Unlike the classical binary digits of 1 and 0, qubits have many properties such as superposition and interconnection. These properties, unique to particle-scale physics, make quantum computers potentially more powerful. high processing power provides access. 

Not everyone working on quantum computers is convinced of the benefits of quantum volume. Scott Aaronson, a quantum computer scientist at the University of Texas, wrote in a blog post in March that while Honeywell's target metric is a step in the right direction, it does not affect other features of the computer. not overshadow He said it was necessary. 

Honeywell partnered with Microsoft for operations on quantum computers

Making a statement about quantum computing, Honeywell is Microsoft's cloud computing unit. azure He explained that thanks to their partnership with Microsoft, their customers will be able to use quantum computers. Thanks to this partnership, Honeywell's customers will be able to carry out their transactions remotely without having a quantum computer. 

Marco Pistoia, general manager and chief research officer of JPMorgan Chase R&D Laboratory, who conducted a study with Honeywell's quantum computer, said that the bank is working on credit risk simulations and improved fraud detection. with Honeywell He talked about their collaboration. Pistoia, “We're excited to be working on such a powerful machine and collaborating with the quantum information theory team at Honeywell.” he said. 

IBM will also announce a quantum computer with a quantum volume of 64 this year

Working on quantum computers IBM too announced that they will launch a quantum computer with a quantum volume of 64 this year. “It is exciting to see the broader quantum computing community embrace the quantum volume metric,” IBM said in a statement. 

Honeywell, which managed to develop a quantum computer with 64 quantum volumes, announced that they will continue to work on quantum computers in the coming years. In the statement made by Honeywell, it was stated that in the next five years quantum computing power It was announced that it will be increased by 10 times.