HACKER Q&A
📣 LinuxBender

Do Quantum Computers Exist?


Serious question. Has anyone here actually:

- put their hands on one?

- logged into one?

- performed calculations or brute forced encryption with one?

I ask because several open source applications are implementing encryption schemes that are said to prevent being broken by quantum computers but I have no idea how they have tested their encryption outside of theory. I have seen pictures of things that purport to be quantum computers but they just look like the artwork that a former colleague created using failed components from the data-center.

If nobody from HN have touched one then I want to know where is the bubble that contains these experts?

  👤 pvg Accepted Answer ✓
It's probably better to ask such questions without goading and pre-dunking on the people who might disagree with you. Otherwise it's more of a comment than a good-faith question.
👤 jaydenX3
well i at least think that they're real cuz i heard that Microsoft is making a new state of matter for that thing that your taking about aka quantum computing and supposedly the new state of matter is a "topological superconductor".
👤 not_your_vase 

  Chalmers: Uh.. a quantum computer? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen?
  Skinner: Yes!
  Chalmers: May I see it?
  Skinner: No.