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On Tuesday, journalist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan moderated the panel entitled What Quantum Actually Means for Computing.<\/p>\n
Chemistry and materials science will be important areas for quantum computing, said Juan de Pablo, executive dean of NYU\u2019s Tandon School of Engineering. \u201cQuantum uses a molecule to simulate a molecule,\u201d he said, pointing out how the technology has the potential to outperform classical computers at accounting for all the electronic interactions in a molecule.<\/p>\n
Beyond the hardware, though, algorithms and platforms will be crucial to useful quantum computing, the panelists agreed. \u201cIt\u2019s not just about the compute, it\u2019s how it\u2019s all linked together,\u201d said Andrea Goldsmith, president of Stony Brook University.<\/p>\n
Getting even more specific, de Pablo predicted the pace of progress: \u201cEvery five years, students come up with a new algorithm that changes the field. We\u2019re going to see the same thing in quantum,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s next?<\/p>\n
In response to an audience question about recent discoveries that inspire them, panelists gazed into the not-so-distant future.<\/p>\n
Pointing to a recent breakthrough performed on IBM Quantum hardware, Osama Raisuddin, a quantum algorithms researcher at RPI, expressed his excitement for the future of molecular simulations.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Cleveland Clinic result was pretty impressive,\u201d he said, referring to a recent study in which IBM and its partners at Cleveland Clinic and RIKEN simulated a protein complex containing over 12,000 atoms<\/a>. \u201cI think there\u2019s a lot more to be done in that area,\u201d Raisuddin added.<\/p>\n Goldsmith emphasized her excitement with quantum networking. \u201cThe fact that you can send information through quantum entanglement without actually sending it is incredibly inspiring,\u201d she said, invoking the unintuitive yet powerful phenomenon known as quantum teleportation<\/a>. Researchers at Stony Brook are working on ways to send data about qubits over standard fiber optic cable, she said, and they plan to unveil the first wireless quantum network. Quantum networking exploits the quantum property of entanglement, where qubits are inextricably linked even over distances, to communicate information without \u201csending\u201d it in the normal sense. Because of that, it\u2019s \u201c100% secure, unbreakable,\u201d Goldsmith said.<\/p>\n To wrap up the panel, Chow emphasized that it\u2019s never too early to start learning about quantum computing. He pointed to the educational content available on the IBM Quantum Platform<\/a>, and even encouraged the audience to deploy AI agents to help them learn about quantum and start writing Qiskit code.<\/p>\n \u201cTo miss this confluence of AI and quantum at this fundamental discovery phase, I think, would be a lost opportunity,\u201d he said. IBM also hosted a quantum “magic” masterclass<\/a> that helped attendees build a circuit and execute it on a real IBM quantum computer for free. If you missed the class, you can attempt it yourself<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some investors say that once your taxi driver is talking about something, the market is near the top.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[61,60,248,82],"class_list":["post-484331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-physics","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-physics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}