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matpompili OP t1_ispwduw wrote

If you are interested and/or have some questions about it, feel free to ask them below! (I am one of the authors of the article)

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Hot_Dog_34 t1_iss7xkk wrote

This is great work! Congrats on the publication and looking forward to seeing this network stack used for future technologies!

My question is this: how easy/difficult would it be to use this stack to build networks with other types of quantum hardware (atoms, superconducting circuits, etc)? My naive feeling is that most of the innovation is in the physical layer, which would presumably need to completely rebuilt for a different type of qubit?

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matpompili OP t1_isst5eq wrote

Thanks! I would say this was just as much innovation at the physical layer (running quantum network operations in real time) than at the link layer and above (implementing for the first time an entanglement distribution service, keeping track of entangled qubits and states delivered, assigning them to different quantum applications and so on).

The link layer we implemented is completely agnostic to the physical layer implementation, so the job for the developers on a different platform would be to be able to receive a set of instructions from the link layer and to execute the required operation on the hardware and reply with one of the expected outcomes, you can see a list of commands/replies here
Then you can run the exact same Python-based apps we ran on our diamond devices on other platforms, with no other changes (the only caveat is that if the platform does not support some quantum gates, the link layer needs to be made aware of that, such that it can convert the application to use a different set of gates)

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FauqBoiiFAME t1_isu1uwm wrote

Have you given any thought to the ramifications of what this technology could do if it was hijacked by a rogue AI system? I'm not sure if I articulated that question correctly but I'm sure everybody here gets the gist... let's just all bear in mind that many things that were once considered science fiction have become science fact. Please approach this question with an open mind.

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matpompili OP t1_isu5g1b wrote

Alright, lemme try: IF the AI has access to multiple full-fledged quantum computers, IF those computers are connected by a quantum network many many many times better than what we have done here (which is state of the art right now), IF we don't realize the only prototype we have of this thing is being used without our authorization and we don't pull a plug, THEN a rouge AI could MAYBE run some algorithms faster than it could on other computers it has stolen.

But if such an AI was available, I would ask it to please please keep my devices on resonance so I can do more useful stuff in the meantime.

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FauqBoiiFAME t1_isu6kn3 wrote

Lmao, thank you for slightly easing my paranoia induced, conspiracy theorist fueled, fears

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