Can someone actually explain what ibms 50-qubit quantum computer actually does...

I rather think the point is that quantum computers just mean you double the size of the key so I think it can.

But I don't encrypt my porn.

is basically running gentoo

>Doesn’t this mean quantum theory is real?
quatum theory is retarded idealistic shit with silly vocabulary to explain phenomena, but math is working.

You kind of have to get into idealistic shit when what you're discussing is supposed to make meaningful statements about the nature of reality.

No. Just no. There is no "quantum" anything, this isn't poorly understood near magic effects of some mythical theoretical particle. This is simply electrons being so small they can move through any material at the path of least resistance, because nothing can exert 100% perfect electrical control over them. It is current leakage. It is nothing but current leakage. It is current leakage in short channel devices, and it happens at literally every feature size, it is not exclusive to small FinFET devices like upcoming 5nm EUV FinFETs. Even planar devices have extremely high degrees of leakage through their channels, directly under the gates, electrons still leak out. Yet despite this the transistors still function.

Quantum tunneling is a meme regurgitated by people who know nothing about the field of FETs.

all semiconductors literally function on the principle that silicon's atomic structure is capable of wildly different levels of electrical resistance based on its molecular configuration. how do you explain how different silicon crystal structures have different resistances and energy bands without quantum phenomena?

p much all electronics function on quantum phenomena, the LED lighting in your house and workplace emits photons via quantum tunneling

just because you don't understand quantum phenomena doesn't mean that it isn't a critical part of how the technology of the modern world functions

That applies to any theory practically by definition.

quantum mechanics really pushes the cult of science's buttons because "SCIENCE" is all about experimentally verifiable phenomena and refuses to admit that things that are not immediately controllable phenomena are not "real"

the problem is that the universe literally breaks down on a small scale, once you get to quantum scale you can literally do the same experiment three times and get different results. it is more or less impossible to control for these phenomena. it is not the same logic that the macro-scale universe uses and there is some grand universal irony to the idea that the core rules of the universe break the rules so badly that most people refuse to believe thats how it works

It sounds like you’re only talking about quantum tunneling. There’s more to quantum theory that gives quantum computers their edge.

>you can literally do the same experiment three times and get different results
Experiments always get different results, even in classical settings, assuming error. But those sequences of results have patterns. The patterns found in quantum phenomena are different from the patterns found in classical physics. Who cares? They’re still patterns and they carry information about the system. Learning a probability distribution for system state is still science, even if it feels weird.

>most people refuse to believe thats how it works
Most people in the scientific community believe in the validity of many quantum experiments. AFAIK, most in the quantum mechanics field believe the results of recent successful Bell test experiments as well. What more convincing would you need? Quantum supremacy?