>If a quantum computer could be built with just 50 quantum bits (qubits), no combination of today's TOP500 supercomputers could successfully outperform it.<p>I would really, really like to know how they came up with this.
It is interesting that they visualized bit flip and phase/sign flip error with two dead birds in:<p><a href="http://cdn.phys.org/newman/gfx/news/hires/2015/3-scientistsac.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://cdn.phys.org/newman/gfx/news/hires/2015/3-scientistsa...</a>
This is just mind boggling. Quantum related things is one of the reasons I decided to go back to college. I'm just lost in a vortex of unknowing. Props to IBM research team for being able to find the errors within the system.