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Thursday, December 08, 2022

Quantum Computing Feat Is Modern Twist on 150-Year-Old Thought Experiment

 Most interesting, quite technical, thought here .... still pondering

Quantum Computing Feat Is Modern Twist on 150-Year-Old Thought Experiment

UNSW Sydney Newsroom (Australia)

November 30, 2022

Engineers at Australia's University of New South Wales, Sydney (UNSW Sydney) used a updated version of the 150-year-old Maxwell's demon concept to reset a quantum bit to its "0" state. UNSW Sydney's Andrea Morello said the demon in this case is a fast digital voltmeter observing the temperature of an electron drawn randomly from a warm pool, which is colder than the pool and "corresponds to a high certainty of it being in the '0' computational state." The researchers used a real-time decision-making processor within the voltmeter to decide whether to retain the electron for further computations. Morello said the experiment improved the accuracy of quantum computer resetting 20-fold, reducing preparation errors from 20% to 1%.  ... ' 

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