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Chinese Scientists Develop Photonic Quantum Analog Computing Chip (sciencemag.org)
hackingbear writes from a report via Xinhua: Chinese scientists demonstrated the first two-dimensional quantum walks of single photons in real spatial space, which may provide a powerful platform to boost analog quantum computing. Scientists at Shanghai Jiaotong University reported in a paper published in the journal Science Advances a three-dimensional photonic chip with a scale up to 49x49 nodes, by using a technique called femtosecond direct writing. Universal quantum computers, under develop by IBM, Google, Alibaba and other American and Chinese rivals, are far from being feasible before error correction and full connections between the increasing numbers of qubits could be realized. In contrast, analog quantum computers, or quantum simulators, can be built in a straightforward way to solve practical problems directly without error correction, and potentially be able to beat the computational power of classical computers in the near future.
Computer Science - Our computer innards speak to this
Process technology: Invented in USA
Fastest microchips: Designed in USA or Israel (with USA-trained engineers.)
Chemical Engineering - No wonder every home in the USA has something made in China
The science is done in European and American universities (and by Corporations directly as well... like 3M or DuPont)
Energy - They are "up there" when it comes to Solar Energy, Hydro Electricity & Wind turbines
They are installing it quickly, but we're inventing it
Decision Science - High/fast execution is their MO. talk of building a "sky scrapper" in 19 days!!
O no! don't scrap the sky!
Engineering - Results already speak for themselves: Talk of the largest High Speed rail Network in the world
Who designed those trains again? Oh yeah, the Japanese.
Materials Science - I bet your smartphone's screen or battery is made in China
And designed in the USA or Europe, then made on contract in China.
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