{"id":2107,"date":"2018-10-11T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/quantum\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2024-12-23T10:01:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T18:01:59","slug":"presenting-the-potential-of-quantum-computing-at-microsoft-ignite-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/quantum\/2018\/10\/11\/presenting-the-potential-of-quantum-computing-at-microsoft-ignite-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Presenting the potential of quantum computing at Microsoft Ignite 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here\u2019s something to consider: A computer running as many bit strings as there are atoms in the universe. Yes, the universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft researcher Michael Beverland dangled that possibility during a presentation at Microsoft Ignite 2018 called \u201cExplore how to develop quantum computing applications without a Ph.D.,\u201d which he co-hosted with Microsoft Quantum software design engineer Bettina Heim. The session was part of our effort to acquaint new and aspiring quantum developers with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/quantum\/development-kit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tools they can use today<\/a> to learn and explore quantum computing.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/quantum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/QPR18_Copenhagen_57022000x1108.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/quantum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/QPR18_Copenhagen_57022000x1108.webp\" alt=\"Microsoft Quantum Computing Project in Copenhagen, Denmark. 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Because qubits amplify their power by interweaving with one another, that will lead to a computer exponentially more powerful than anything available today. Such a computer, or even one with far fewer qubits, will crack the code of incredibly complex chemical molecules, solve medical challenges, and lead to the manufacture of \u201clossless\u201d power lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beverland also discussed the <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/quantum\/2018\/06\/06\/the-microsoft-approach-to-quantum-computing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft approach<\/a> to creating a quantum computer. Our plan is to build a full-stack quantum system, scalable to meet real-world needs. Microsoft teams today are working on all the tools needed for quantum computing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Quantum Development Kit.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Algorithms and applications.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cryogenic controls to create the incredibly cold temperatures a quantum computer will need.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Topological qubits \u2013 scalable and stable quantum bits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/quantum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ENIAC.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/quantum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ENIAC-1340x600.webp\" alt=\"Photo of ENIAC mainframe computer in 1947\" class=\"wp-image-2119 webp-format\" srcset=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/quantum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ENIAC.webp 1340w, https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/quantum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ENIAC-300x229.webp 300w, https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/quantum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ENIAC-1024x783.webp 1024w, https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/quantum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ENIAC-768x587.webp 768w, https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/quantum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ENIAC-327x250.webp 327w, https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/quantum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ENIAC-330x252.webp 330w, https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/quantum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ENIAC-800x611.webp 800w, https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/quantum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ENIAC-400x306.webp 400w\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/quantum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ENIAC.jpg\" data-orig-srcset=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/quantum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ENIAC.jpg 1340w, https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/quantum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ENIAC-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/quantum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ENIAC-1024x783.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/quantum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ENIAC-768x587.jpg 768w, https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/quantum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ENIAC-327x250.jpg 327w, https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/quantum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ENIAC-330x252.jpg 330w, https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/quantum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ENIAC-800x611.jpg 800w, https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/quantum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ENIAC-400x306.jpg 400w\"><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what can we learn from the history of classical computing as we build a quantum computer? Beverland showed participants a photograph of ENIAC, one of the earliest electronic general-purposed computers.&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 1.4rem\">Built in 1945 at a cost of nearly $500,000, ENIAC could perform in 30 seconds certain tasks a human would require 20 hours to complete. Pointing at the people in the black-and-white photo \u2013 programmers Glen Beck and Betty Snyder \u2013 Beverland said: \u201cI like to think that they could already sense that these machines, and others like them, would change the world.&nbsp;<\/span>\u201cIn quantum computing we have a similar feeling. We think we\u2019re on the precipice of a huge change that quantum computing will bring about.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a second session, \u201cAn Introduction Quantum programming through the Quantum Development Kit and Q# Katas,\u201d Bettina Heim showed developers how to use the <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/quantum\/2018\/07\/23\/learn-at-your-own-pace-with-microsoft-quantum-katas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft Quantum Katas<\/a>, an open-source project containing a series of programming exercises that provide immediate feedback as one learns how to code in Q#. \u201cQuantum computing is going to be much the same as classical computing, and will be expressed in similar terms,\u201d Heim told her audience. \u201cSo you don\u2019t need all the details and physics formulas \u2013 you can use the building blocks that we provide, and you just write algorithms.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heim then walked participants through a half-dozen programming tests, each time running the algorithm to show that it was \u201csolved\u2019 using quantum tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we noted in an earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/quantum\/2018\/09\/25\/microsoft-advances-quantum-computing-vision-and-helps-tackle-real-world-challenges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog<\/a>, it has been a year since Microsoft unveiled its vision for building a scalable quantum computer. The company is advancing toward that goal, with seven Microsoft quantum labs around the world actively engaged in engineering a topological quantum computer that scales to meet real-world computing challenges. We\u2019re forming partnerships with institutions such as the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), and Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) to apply quantum principles that advance science and help people. And we\u2019re offering industry-leading developer support in the form of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/quantum\/development-kit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft Quantum Development Kit.<\/a> We\u2019re making real progress on creating a quantum computer and were delighted to have the chance to share our work at Ignite 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"overheard-at-ignite-2018-what-participants-wanted-to-know-about-quantum-computing\">Overheard at Ignite 2018 \u2013 what participants wanted to know about quantum computing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Audience questions, and answers offered by Beverland and Heim, have been edited to add context.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Question: What is the status of quantum computing? How close are we to using quantum computing to solve for RSA encryption?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong> There are various sizes of problems we might take on with quantum computers, and RSA is one of the largest. You will need a very powerful quantum computer to crack RSA for 2,000 characters. How close are we to that point? Across the world there are lots of approaches to building qubits, with all the teams working on them trying to scale up. Our approach is to build a system that scales from the outset and has much lower noise. But we are not at the stage where we have a large number of qubits. Some teams have qubits in the tens and hundreds, but they\u2019re very noisy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Question: My understanding is that once you read the value of qubits, they\u2019re destroyed. So how do you know when a quantum computer has solved a problem?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong> The way that a quantum algorithm typically works is that you start the entire set of qubits in some very specific quantum state. That will be close to what we see in the classical state, with zeroes and ones. Quantum algorithms will start with all qubits being in, say, a zero state. It\u2019s an art to develop a quantum algorithm that ensures that just before you measure the state of the qubits, you\u2019re in or close to one of these classical states, so you don\u2019t get highly random answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Question: Are there some kinds of problems that could be solved with a classical computer but not with a quantum computer?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong> Theoretically, no: A quantum computer can do everything a classical computer of the same size can do. However, we have very large classical computers (petabytes) and it will be a long time before we have quantum computers with \u201cpeta-qubits.\u201d So there will be some problems for which quantum computers are theoretically as good as classical computers, but not much better, and we will presumably use classical computers to solve them simply because large classical computers will be cheaper. There are of course some high-value problems which we simply cannot solve on any classical computer in existence but which we can solve on small quantum computers. Those are the application areas we are most interested in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Question: Does the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit come with error detection and resolution?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong> By design, if you\u2019re running on something like a quantum simulator, it runs perfectly. Quantum algorithms are probabilistic so there is a certain amount of error because your algorithm is not designed to be fully deterministic. And there are potential hardware errors, which depends on the hardware. Even our knowledge of how these errors are supposed to behave is a tricky thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Question: There are a lot of sessions on AI (here at Ignite). Will quantum computing be more apt at building real artificial intelligence?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong> At the minute that\u2019s unknown. It\u2019s an active area of research. A quantum computer is fundamentally a different tool, so it could open new opportunities in AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Question: A qubit is a unit of storage. That also means we\u2019re going to have problems with storing that and some way to process it. Are those the next steps?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong> We are thinking about what it takes to make a quantum application work end to end. There are practical considerations, like where does my memory go? If I want to load something then do something with it and then put it back, where does it go? Quantum computing is a little different in a lot of ways. You can have scratch space that simultaneously holds part of the memory for a computation that can be used for another computation without destroying the information it holds for the first part. 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