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Current quantum computers, because of the errors, lose information over time. That was a very simple calculation. All I’m doing is converting 1’s to 0’s; I should get a perfect answer at the end of it. In a classical computer, you would get a perfect answer. In a quantum computer right now, if you go past, let’s say, 20 or 100 of these switching numbers, you might not be able to recognize the answer anymore. So, it is important that when we talk about quantum computers, to look at how much error is in that quantum computer, and the errors are introduced every time you do a gate operation.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "testimonial", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "2fa9a683-5e3b-4d2c-9ac6-a3355b6deaed", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.25, "w": 0.9, "x": 0.05, "y": 0.32 }, "kind": "quote", "text": "I personally have done what I would call as testing quantum algorithms. I know a few algorithms, and I can run those algorithms on various devices. One is a Quantum Fourier Transform, Bernstein-Vazirani, there’s Deutsch-Jorsa, so there are different algorithms. I like to test those algorithms and look at their performance on each of these devices, it really depends on the number of qubits, and it depends on the errors and connectivity. On the other hand, I’ve also just done a very simple what you would call a real-world problem which is adding numbers. If you think of an adder, like a classical circuit of an adder where you’ve got two binary numbers, and you want to add those two binary numbers and get an answer, you can simulate that on a quantum computer as well, though you’re kind of wasting the potential of a qubit when you do that. So, I’ve done that experiment on the IonQ and from that, I get a general idea of how well it performs because one plus one should give me a two and two plus three should give me a five.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "testimonial", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "c049b423-7f96-4b5e-aa16-a6d2de6b3843", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": null, "kind": "quote", "text": "I’ve done that experiment on the IonQ and from that, I get a general idea of how well it performs because one plus one should give me a two and two plus three should give me a five. — Quantum computing expert; user of IonQ’s machine; quantum computing faculty member", "attrs": null, "subkind": null, "toolName": "Authority citation", "toolSlug": "authority-citation", "confidence": null, "componentId": "019dd952-f5d2-7501-bd81-b8870a5c8c3d", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.02, "w": 0.3, "x": 0.05, "y": 0.96 }, "kind": "source-note", "text": "Source: Scorpion Capital consultation calls with experts", "attrs": null, "subkind": null, "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "7fdb1c5e-6dea-413c-9724-4b34d746069d", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.15, "w": 0.9, "x": 0.05, "y": 0.08 }, "kind": "title", "text": "The first quantum computing expert we hired is a faculty member who we asked to run a simple program on IonQ’s computer via Amazon Web Services, given his background in testing algorithms on different systems. 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