China's Quantum Chips

[TaiShang]

We're on a lot of cutting edge technology for the future. It looks like we will dominate technology of the 21st century. Once we master it, very important to secure from the US espionage.

And the researchers are so young.

Great potential. No complacence.

 

[graphican]

Good to know but sorry I am not an engineer and cannot reach depth of this development. What is quantum chip anyway? How is it special?

 

[cirr]

航天五院突破高超声速飞行器极端温度热防护技术

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向树红：掌控国际话语权的“中国声音”

创新引领
使“CAST”命名国际一流技术

在航天器研制过程中，需要对其进行声环境试验，以确保其在发射过程中安全稳定。向树红在国际上原创性提出航天器声环境填充效应理论分析方法，研究了航天器和火箭的形状尺寸效应，提出了一种新型分析法，这种方法比美国NASA的计算方法更先进，计算精度更准确。试验与理论计算对比分析研究表明，新方法的理论计算结果与试验结果误差优于NASA的结果。为体现中国航天人在该技术领域的卓越贡献，该方法采用五院的英文简称“CAST”作为方法名称。

在ISO国际标准小组会上，该方法得到美国、德国、法国、俄罗斯、日本等国际同行专家的认可，相关算法已纳入到ISO国际标准中。开创性提出了混响声场波动和离散混合分析及SEA综合确定法、多喇叭声源匹配组合、分频、非线性、最佳步长控制等技术，解决了混响室填充效应和不规则空间宽频声场预示和声试验难题。

勇为人先
立标五院首个技术类国际标准

标准化工作的水平是一个单位是否达到国际一流水平的重要标志。在欧美航天强国纷纷加快推进其标准全球化战略的新形势下，集团公司和五院提出了“力争主导核心领域国际航天标准”的行动路线，向树红带领团队，瞄准高水准，向立标国际标准这一技术创新高地发起冲锋，并以此来推动五院市场化、产业化和国际化发展。

要立标国际标准，就必须让国际科学界信服你的标准，但这谈何容易？

打铁还需自身硬！几十年来，向树红带领团队将中国的航天器声环境工程技术从一无所有带到了世界领先，培育了具有国际竞争力的噪声试验设备系列产品。多年来，他坚持理论创新与工程实践充分结合、有着丰厚的工程经验积淀和海量的试验数据积累，这为“五院声音”主导国际和国内各类航天器声环境标准制定奠定了坚实基础。

在团队的共同努力下，向树红做为国际标准的项目负责人（PL），组织美、日、法、德、巴西、俄罗斯等国专家开展ISO声试验标准的编制，2014年7月在国际ISO投票通过了该标准的立项，在本领域学术、技术处于国际领先水平。 拥有“2163立方米混响室研制”国防科工委科技进步二等奖成果、“大型混响室气源系统”专利和标准等自主知识产权。

独具视角
技术突破成就“大国重器”

“以1小时全球感知和打击的高超声速临近空间飞行器（20马赫）为首要应用的高超声速飞行器极端温度热防护是一项世界性的技术难题。”这句拗口的技术表述，包含两个关键点：一是我国也在关注全球感知和快速打击飞行器，二是热防护是其中一项世界性难题。而就是这样一个制约“大国重器”装备发展的技术难题，被向树红团队破解了。

向树红带领团队，在国际上原创性提出了高超声速飞行的超高效主动气膜冷却技术，一举使中国拥有“全球感知和快速打击飞行器”这一“大国重器”成为可能：一是国内外首次原创性的提出了高超声速的气、热、等离子体多物理场下的预制冷源与主动式气膜极端高温防护的全新概念；二是进行高超声速（20马赫）气动力、热、等离子体多物理场分析，应用于空间技术中；三是国内首次解决在难加工材料、难加工形面上，基于智能激光精密加工的微尺度异形孔一次成型的世界性难题。

这一技术突破为中国的“大国重器”研制扫平了关键性技术难题，使中国拥有这种“杀手锏”级装备成为可能。同时，该技术还成功应用于某军用重点项目的，预制冷源与主动式气膜极端高温防护系统研制中。

固本强基
为试验基础研究提供"中国方案"

一直以来，我国的航天器环境试验基础理论多借鉴参照美国NASA的相关做法，向树红2013年研究并提出了航天器环境试验基线和剪裁技术理论体系、空间环境部组件材料试验基线、部组件研制试验基线，作为课题负责人立项成功2013年科工局技术基础的重点课题“航天器环境试验基线和剪裁技术”，对完善现有的鉴定验收试验基线和试验裁剪技术和修订航天器试验标准规范提供了基础。作为专家参与国际标准ISO/19683的编写。为我国航天器环境试验基础研究提供了中国人自己的技术方案。

与此同时，向树红还首次提出了虚拟环境试验概念，重点突破计算机仿真虚拟振动试验技术和周期性热流边界下的温度实时预报等关键技术，达到国内首创、国际先进，这标志着航天器环境试验的优化有了极为有力的方法，对大幅提高航天器环境试验的效率和准确性提供了先进的技术路径。该技术也获得国防科科技进步奖、发明专利及相关标准等自主知识产权。

乘风破浪会有时，直挂云帆济沧海。向树红用技术创新开疆拓土，展示中国航天硬实力，完美诠释他作为一名航天科技工作者的创新担当！

http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?src=3&tim...--n3eRzs*j7B5ed9HqeXjBa9VOhrCvZF3mSI*UVFVc1SA=

Ma20 hypersonic vehicle for 1-hour global strike @Bussard Ramjet

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

The quantum supercomputing might be a pipe dream for others, but not for China anymore.

 

[Jlaw]

We're on a lot of cutting edge technology for the future. It looks like we will dominate technology of the 21st century. Once we master it, very important to secure from the US espionage.

And hopefully increase China's espionage against US

 

[xunzi]

And the researchers are so young.

Great potential. No complacence.

That another beauty of our researchers. So young and already understand complex technological research. I cannot imagine what their mind will be once they reach their prime age which is around 40-60.

 

[GS Zhou]

That another beauty of our researchers. So young and already understand complex technological research. I cannot imagine what their mind will be once they reach their prime age which is around 40-60.

you are perfectly right. For example, the Gaofeng satellites team, the average age is only 35-years old! Hard to imagine their achievements in 10years!!

少年强则中国强！

 

[TaiShang]

That another beauty of our researchers. So young and already understand complex technological research. I cannot imagine what their mind will be once they reach their prime age which is around 40-60.

They are the generation (to which I humbly belong to) that will see China's transition to an all-around global superpower in few decades. The only threat is complacence and laziness.

 

[Han Patriot]

Can someone repost this in the tech section?

 

[cirr]

Shanghai Control Centre for Quantum Science Satellite

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[TaiShang]

How will quantum communication change life?
(Xinhua) August 14, 2016

BEIJING, Aug. 14 - The imminent launch of the world's first quantum communication satellite is widely believed to herald a breakthrough in China's development of quantum technology.

Mysterious and confusing, the study of minute particles smaller than atoms has been applied in fields as diverse as computer processing, lasers and nuclear technology.

How will quantum communication change our lives - especially in the age of cyber attacks, wiretapping and information leakage?

SUPER PROCESSING ABILITY

Based on the quantum phenomenon that a tiny particle acts as if it's simultaneously in two locations, quantum computing could dwarf the processing power of today's supercomputers.

In normal silicon computer chips, data is rendered in one of two states: 0 or 1. However, in quantum computers, data could exist in both states simultaneously, holding exponentially more information.

One analogy to explain the concept of quantum computing is that it is like being able to read all the books in a library at the same time, whereas conventional computing is like having to read them one after another.

Scientists say that a problem that takes Tianhe-2, one of the fastest super computers in China, 100 years to solve might take a quantum computer just one hundredth of a second.

Many countries have invested heavily in the research and development of such computers.

In July 2015, a quantum-computing lab jointly established by Chinese Academy of Science and Chinese Internet giant Alibaba opened in Shanghai. The lab is expected to produce a general-purpose quantum computer prototype with 50 to 100 quantum bits by 2030.

HACK-PROOF COMMUNUCATION

Such powerful computing ability is also viewed as a threat in that it could make everything on a conventional computer hackable.

However, like a coin with two sides, quantum mechanics also serves as protector of information. Quantum key technology boasts ultra-high security as a photon can be neither separated nor duplicated, so it is impossible to wiretap or intercept the information transmitting through it.

Moreover, it has the ability to inform the two communicating users of the presence of any third party trying to eavesdrop. At the same time, the information being intercepted would "collapse" or self-destruct.

China will launch the world's first quantum communication satellite in a matter of days. If the satellite works well, it will pave the way to a hack-proof communication system.

Meanwhile, China will complete and put into operation the world's first secure quantum communication backbone network, the Beijing-Shanghai backbone network, later this year, according to Pan Jianwei, academician of Chinese Academy of Science and chief scientist of quantum communication satellite project.

The 2,000-kilometer backbone network will be used in the fields of finance, electronics and government affairs.

The satellite and the ground-based network will ensure the secure passage of information, Pan said.

Pan reckoned that quantum communication would enter everyday life in about 10 years, securing online banking and payments.

 

[Beast]

https://defence.pk/threads/google’s...mulated-a-molecule-for-the-first-time.440715/

(But shhh...nobody in the East believes it's real...not mentioned in Eastern media)

Ok, how about quantum satellite? When US is going to launch one. 2099?

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

Ok, how about quantum satellite? When US is going to launch one. 2099?

Quantum Communications is one area where China sincerely beats US.

But the issue is that EU, Austria in particular is pretty advanced in quantum communications, so US would anyways have the lee way to invite and transfer all knowledge if they so desire.

 

[TaiShang]

China to make new breakthrough in quantum communication
Xinhua, October 19, 2017

Chinese researchers will soon make a new breakthrough in quantum communication after the world's first 2,000-km quantum communication line between Beijing and Shanghai went into operation in September, a senior university official said.

The team led by Pan Jianwei from the Chinese Academy of Sciences has continued deep research to optimize the transmission of the quantum communication line so a jam will not occur when the number of users increases, said Xu Wu, Communist Party chief of the University of Science and Technology of China based in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province.

Due to the attenuation of optical fiber, relay stations are needed to extend the distance of quantum communication. There are more than 30 relay stations, with an average distance of about 80 km between them, on the Beijing-Shanghai line.

The research team is working to extend the distance between two stations to 300 or 500 km to cut the number of relay stations and consequently the overall cost, said Xu, one of the more than 2,200 delegates to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), which opened Wednesday in Beijing.

A breakthrough will be made in this regard in the near future, said the Party official, whose university is applying for a national laboratory in the quantum field.

Quantum communication has ultra-high security. It is impossible to wiretap, intercept or crack the information transmitted through this means.

The Beijing-Shanghai quantum communication line is connected to the world's first quantum satellite, which was launched by China in August last year, through a station in Beijing. The satellite is nicknamed Micius after a fifth century B.C. Chinese philosopher and scientist who has been credited as the first person to conduct optical experiments.

As it is a new type of communication, the line's operation might come across problems. The team will try to solve problems through further research to make the line better meet the needs of the country and the users, said Xu.

 

[TaiShang]

Baidu sets up quantum institute

Source:Global Times Published: 2018/3/8

Baidu Inc announced on Thursday that it will set up an institute for quantum computing, where it will conduct research on the application of quantum computing software and information technology, according to media reports.

"We are planning to develop the institute to a world-class level and will gradually apply quantum computing in Baidu's future businesses within five years," the report said, citing Duan Runyao, founder of the Baidu Quantum Computing Institute.

Quantum computing is expected to be widely used in areas like artificial intelligence, medicine, weather forecasts and finance, the report said.

Alibaba Group established a quantum computing lab in cooperation with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in July 2015.