Recently, Google unintentionally revealed that it was capable of running a very complex operation in just a few seconds in an IBM computer with 53 qubits. However, José Luis Salmerón, a professor at Pablo de Olavide University of Information Systems and Computer Management, said that we are far from using quantum technology in everyday things. "Moreover, this technology is not being developed for this purpose."

Salmerón believes that what Google and IBM are doing has accelerated the race, but this technology will only be used in a production environment. And that's exactly what BBVA's New Digital Business launched; these quantum algorithms will be used to process financial information. However, in medicine, pharmacy, genetics, biochemistry, artificial intelligence ... there are many things that can be done, but many steps still need to be taken.

The purpose of this technology is not to make it the same in less time, because there is no need for such technology forever.

As we told you a few days ago, see the news here, a problem that Google would solve in 10,000 years with its quantum computer solved in 200 seconds.

The computer used by Google uses a "quantum gateway", equivalent to the logic gates used by conventional computers, but with greater capacity. Among other properties, it allows the processing of information, not using a binary system 1 and 0, both together and in a reversible manner, or interacting, a phenomenon known as mutual influence. Salmeron tries to simplify it as much as possible, to make it understandable. "We get a picture with a conventional computer in black and white. With quantum, we have a large scale of grays." The result is an exponential increase in processing capacity.

IBM announced the opening of the Quantum Center in New York in September for commercial and research activities. As of this month, the multinational will have 14 systems, including a new 53-qubit computer, which the company believes is "the largest quantum system to have external access so far."

In 2016, 150,000 users of 80 commercial clients, academic institutions and research laboratories, which have generated more than 200 scientific articles and 14 million experiments, will be included.