Researchers from the University of Sussex led teams from around the world, including a team from Google, and say their work has the potential to revolutionize the industry, science and commerce in a similar benchmark as the invention of the computer.
If it works, it will be a real-life version in thinking, supercomputer programmed to solve "the main question about life, the universe and everything ' in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
They have released the plan in hopes another team will build and test machine.
Quantum computer has the potential to become more powerful in solving specific problems from any computer ever built before.
' Over the years, people say that it is not possible to build a quantum computer, actually, ' said Professor Winfried Hensinger, head of the technology group of Quantum Ion at the University of Sussex, who led this research.
"With our work, we not only show that it can be done, but now we give the nuts and bolts of construction plans to build a large scale machine."
As a next step, the team will build a prototype quantum computer based on this design, at the University, and says it could begin operating in two years.
' Is the Holy Grail of science, really, to build a quantum computer, Hensinger tells the independent. '
' Life will change completely. We will be able to do certain things, we could have ever dreamed about before. '
When built, the researchers say the computer capacity, that it "would have the potential to answer a lot of questions in science; Creating a new rescue, medicines; solve scientific problems most unimaginable; uncover the mysteries of the unknown but the longest When the deepest in space; and solve some problems, such as a regular computer would take billions of years to calculate."
This is a huge leap towards creating a universal quantum computer is published in the journal Science progress.
' The availability of universal Quantum Computer may have an influence on a number of research areas and the community as a whole, "wrote the researchers.
It is based on a new invention allows the actual quantum bits transferred between individual quantum computing modules to achieve large scale machine can achieve almost arbitrarily big computer-aided processing power is fully modular.
New invention introduced the connections made by the electric field, which allows a charged atoms (ions) are transported from one module to another.
This new approach allows 100,000 times faster connection speed between the individual quantum computational modules in relation to current technology State-of-the-art fiber links.
The new plan is the work of an international team of researchers from the University of Sussex (UK), Google (USA),
University of Aarhus (Denmark), RIKEN (Japan) and the University of Siegen (Germany).
The effort is part of the UK Government's plan to develop the technology of quantum against exploitation and utilizing industrial inventions of the Sussex team to replace billions of laser beam needed for quantum computing Quantum Computers operating on a large scale with the simple application of strain on the microchip.
Prof. Hensinger said: ' the availability of universal Quantum Computer may have an influence on the community as a whole.
' Without a doubt, it's still a challenge to build a large-scale machine, but now is the time to translate academic excellence in actual application is based on the British forces in breakthrough technology.
"I am very excited to work with industry and Government to make it happen."
Even the fastest supercomputers today are still bound by a system of 1 and 0, which allows the first machine to perform the calculation.
But experts believe that drawing on strange properties of quantum world can enable the computer to free themselves from the chains of binary, to create the most robust solution of the machine on the planet.
Quantum is the supremacy of the use of the company for its plans to build the first quantum computer can do the calculations from the classic range of computers.
Companies like Google are hoping that quantum computing could be the solution for analyzing large data sets to find the optimal solution.
The heart of modern computing is a binary code, which have received computers so well for decades.
It also works with quantum computing company Canada D-wave to push the limits of quantum computing, working with NASA Ames Research Center
But if the team can push the engine works using the grid only 50 qubits, it would have created an engine computer can beat the best there is today and achieve a quantum rule.
Comment on when Google could reach the milestone, Simon Devitt at RIKEN Centre for science case suddenly in Japan, told New Scientist: "I want to be optimistic and say maybe by the end of next year. '
He added: «if they get it done even in the next five years, there will be a huge jump.»
While all of this is still in the realm of theory, in practice, create powerful computers that use quantum bits will give much more calculations at the same time.
The machines will not replace the desktop computer or can always run the software, but it could help in raw processing power to deal with the problem of data-driven.
In an age of big data, covering everything from genetic-based drugs to finance and insurance, to find optimal solutions to specific problems can be life changing.
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