Serious question. Has anyone here actually:<p>- put their hands on one?<p>- logged into one?<p>- performed calculations or brute forced encryption with one?<p>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.<p>If nobody from HN have touched one then I want to know where is the bubble that contains these experts?
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.
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".
<p><pre><code> 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.</code></pre>