• FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    No, sadly not. If you were to argue that individual components of a quantum computer are small, you’d also have to argue just how small classical transistors are. A whole quantum computer is pretty big because of the cooling, but that’s an integral part.

    • Kyoyeou (Ki jəʊ juː)@slrpnk.net
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      1 year ago

      Well I do understand what you say, but does the cooling count in the computing of the computer, with or without the cooling a computer would compute, just way badder, so I would tend to say it’s not counting , although I do understand what you are meaning

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        1 year ago

        Without cooling, the computer doesn’t work, since it overheats (which would literally destroy it). Doubly so for quantum computers, since the quantum effects are superseded by environmental noise above their operating temperatures.

        To say it differently: every computer part has cooling integrated, like your CPU. If you removed all that it would stop working after a few seconds.