SciShow: Quantum Supremacy: When Will Quantum Computers Be a Thing?

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Content of the Lesson: Go to http://Brilliant.org/SciShow to try their data structures course. The first 200 subscribers get 20% off an annual Premium subscription. In 2019, Google announced that they had achieved quantum supremacy - but what does that mean? And does it even matter? Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Carpentier, Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/raspberrypi/tutorials/turing-machine/one.html https://wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/2013/07/30/what-did-schrodingers-cat-experiment-prove/ http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs191/sp12/notes/chap1&2.pdf https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03410-w https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1666-5 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/why-quantum-computers-will-be-super-awesome-someday/2019/10/26/194f1056-f7c1-11e9-b2d2-1f37c9d82dbb_story.html https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/10/on-quantum-supremacy/ https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613596/how-a-quantum-computer-could-break-2048-bit-rsa-encryption-in-8-hours/ Image Sources: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ibm_research_zurich/23518086798/in/photolist-BQdkR9-Eqbkev-2hZu94r-23qF8wx-fyDfcH-GxVKi8-NwApyw-Sp2BiY-6Mu9Ty-ZgcBoY-22GXJxt-ejGuPK-GsgM63-uFbnG4-DLP9MP-QKMVbQ-Ftp68f-GGHbYc-GkUVCs-dTYG6-Eqbk9a-EP2hYy-24iNoqy-GLnXhx-2hXcCdo-Ga36mB-HqnEAe-22GXJmB-FR7rBg-YoaggN-2eYmNme-FKkLdU-2he8hfV-9GYevd-21PZKhw-NqhfZJ-2a4FAos-ST8rZN-ZyhFV2-CmGCCQ-z3LHC-27DcRzY-KJejp6-cmFnV-SXgf8Y-9VhaWN-ZoAoSJ-22gLCVp-21GDEQi-jR1PuL https://www.flickr.com/photos/40748696@N07/40786969122 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alan_Turing_Aged_16.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Turingmachine.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bombe-rebuild.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger_(1933).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colossus.jpg


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