Cloud computing to help unravel secrets of quantum science
September 6, 2013
Grazed from CloudPro. Author: Jane McCallion.
The University of Bristol’s Centre for Quantum Photonics has made quantum computing available to the general public through the cloud for the first time. The university’s QCloud initiative consists of two parts. The first is a software simulation, hosted on Google’s App Engine cloud platform, that allows anyone to perform experiments on a model of the real quantum processor housed at the Centre.
The experiments vary in their degree of complexity, from a simple two-path model with a beam splitter in the middle where users can chose to send a virtual photon down one path or the other, or indeed one down each, to much more complex models involving multiple beam splitters and rotation devices, as well as multiple paths…
Users can adjust a growing number of variables as the complexity increases and observe predicted models of quantum phenomena such as entanglement. This is where, if two photons meet they will ‘follow’ each other, and superposition, where a photon exists in two places at one time…
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