Chinese scientists have developed the first ever optical quantum computer, the fastest ever invented, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
A team of scientists, led by Pan Jianwei, an academician, has successfully built the first single-photo quantum computer to beat out all prior supercomputers, it added.
Boson sampling using a prototype machine showed the machine is at least 24,000 times faster than any similar devices developed by foreign labs to date, and is 10 to 100 times faster at classical algorithmic calculations than the first vacuum-tube computer, ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), and the first transistor computer, TRADIC (Transistorized Airborne Digital Computer).
In theory, quantum computers have superb parallel computing and simulation capabilities, and their capacity improve exponentially as the number of particles increases, making them an ideal solution to mass-scale computing that could not be performed by earlier supercomputers. A quantum computer with 50 microscopic particles could outperform all other supercomputers when handling certain computing tasks.
Source: yicaiglobal
