Jeffey A. Newman
Amazon is now worth over $2 trillion and it is advancing swiftly in the arena of quantum computing. Amazon’s Web Services Center for quantuim Computing is located at the California Institute of TEchnology in Pasadena California. The new semiconductor chip the Ocelot quantum processor is deigned a built in house and uses a scalable architecture that reduces error correction by up to 90 percent. Errors are the primary hurdle for the debelopment of these machines.
AWS researchers published their findings in Nature and it can also be seen on the Amazon Science Blog https://www.amazon.science/blog/amazon-announces-ocelot-quantum-chip It appears that the error rates in quantum computing are a difficult problem for the researchers worlwide. Ocelot was designed from the ground up with error correction “built in.” According to Amazon’s researchers, reducing qubit error rates requires scaling up the redundancy in the number of physical qubits per logical qubits. This means a commercially relevant quantum computer will require millions of physical qubits — vastly larger than the current hardware of all existing quantum computers. Bosonic particles are photons and according to the studey, bosonic quantum correction uses oscillator states more effectively and create more error correction.
One type of bosonic quantum error corrections uses cat cubits, named after the alive/dead schrodinger cat of Erwin Schrodinger’s though experiment. In Schrödinger’s original formulation, a cat, a flask of poison, and a radioactive source are placed in a sealed box. If an internal radiation monitor such as a Geiger counter detects radioactivity (a single atom decaying), the flask is shattered, releasing the poison, which kills the cat. If no decaying atom triggers the monitor, the cat remains alive. The Copenhagen interpretation implies that the cat is therefore simultaneously alive and dead. If you look in the box, you see the cat either alive or dead, not both alive and dead. The experiment is not intended to be actually performed on a cat, but rather as an easily understandable illustration of the behavior of atoms.
Jeffrey Newman is a whistleblower lawyer representing doctors and nurses who have become whistleblowers reporting Medicare and Medicaid fraud. He also represents whistleblowers in tax evasion cases and tariff fraud cases. Jeff frequently writes on events affecting world social developments. He can be reached at Jeff@JeffNewmanLaw.com or at 978-880-4758
