Historie vývoje
In2017,PanJianwei'steambuilttheworld'sfirstopticalquantumcomputingprototypethatsurpassedtheearlyclassicalcomputer(ENIAC).
In2019,theteamrealizedtheBosesamplingofthe20-photoninput60-modeinterferencecircuit,andtheoutputcomplexityisequivalenttotheHilbertstatespaceof48qubits,approachingthesuperiorityofquantumcomputing.
Sincethen,theresearchteamhasindependentlydevelopedaquantumlightsourcewithhighefficiency,highidentity,extremelyhighbrightness,andlarge-scaleexpansioncapability,whilemeetingtherequirementsofphasestability,fullyconnectedrandommatrix,andexcellentwavepacketcoincidence.100-modeinterferencecircuitwith99.5%passratebetterthan98%,phase-lockaccuracywithinminus9thpowerofrelativeopticalpath10,high-efficiency100-channelsuperconductingnanowiresingle-photondetector.
OnDecember4,2020,theUniversityofScienceandTechnologyofChinaannouncedthatPanJianweiandothershadsuccessfullyconstructedthe"NineChapters"of76photonquantumcomputingprototypes,anditsoutputquantumstatespacescalereached1030.Onthesameday,theinternationalacademicjournal"Science"publishedtheresult,andthereviewersevaluateditas"amostadvancedexperiment"and"amajorachievement."
Výpočetní výkon
TheNineChaptersdevelopmentteamclaimedthatwhensolving50millionsamplesofGaussianBosesampling,“NineChapters”take200seconds,andasof2020,theworld’sfastestThesupercomputer"Fuyue"takes600millionyears;whensolving10billionsamples,ninechapterswilltake10hours,whileFuyuetakes120billionyears.Equivalently,thecalculationspeedof"NineChapters"is10billiontimesfasterthanthatof"Platanus",anditmakesupforthetechnicalloopholesof"Platanus"dependingonthenumberofsamples.
ThepressreleaseoftheUniversityofScienceandTechnologyofChinaalsopointedoutthatthe"NineChapters"forprocessingGaussianBosesamplingis100trilliontimesfasterthanthesupercomputer"Fuyue",whichisequivalentlyfasterthanGoogle'ssuperconductingqubitcomputer"Platanus"10billiontimesfaster.
ExperimentsshowthatthecalculationspeedoftheclassicalmathematicalalgorithmGaussianBosesamplingin"NineChapters"is100trilliontimesfasterthantheworld'sfastestsupercomputing"Fuyue",thusachievingthesecondoneintheworld"Quantumhegemony"haspromotedthefrontierresearchofglobalquantumcomputingtoanewheight,anditssupercomputingpowerhaspotentialapplicationvalueinthefieldsofgraphtheory,machinelearning,quantumchemistry,etc.
Při řešení problému vzorkování Gaussových Bossů s 50 miliony vzorků trvá devět kapitol 200 sekund a „Fuyue“ 600 milionů let; při řešení 10 miliard vzorků „devět kapitol“ trvá 10 hodin a „Fuyue lion“ let 120 miliard let.
Systémový princip
Theupperleftlasersystemgenerateshighpeakpowerfemtosecondpulses;the25lightsourcesontheleftgenerate50channelsofsingle-modecompressedstateinputtotheright100throughtheparametricdownconversionprocessModeopticalquantuminterferencenetwork;Finally,100high-efficiencysuperconductingsingle-photondetectorsareusedtodetecttheoutputopticalquantumstateoftheinterferometer.
R&Dunit
The"NineChapters"areacollaborationbetweenPanJianwei'steam,ShanghaiInstituteofMicrosystems,ChineseAcademyofSciences,andNationalParallelComputerEngineeringTechnologyResearchCenter.
Zdroj jména
Thequantumcomputingprototype"NineChapters"wasnamed"NineChapters"tocommemoratetheearliestmathematicsmonograph"NineChaptersArithmetic"inancientChina.
Význam
PanJianweisaidthatthisachievementfirmlyestablishedmycountry'spositionasthefirstsquareininternationalquantumcomputingresearch.Basedonthe"NineChapters""GaussianBosesampling"algorithm,itwillhaveimportantpotentialapplicationsinthefieldsofgraphtheory,machinelearning,andquantumchemistryinthefuture.
Vyznamenání přijata
InApril2021,ittookoneyeartobeselectedintotheNetexploUniversityNetwork,whichiscomposedofworld-renowneduniversitiesinthefieldoftechnology,andselected10breakthroughsgloballyDigitalinnovationtechnology.
Expertní hodnocení
Pro průlom"Devítikapitol" čtenáři časopisu "Science" poznamenali, že "toto je největší pokrokový experiment a velký úspěch."