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JPMorgan Just Beat Big Tech to a Quantum Breakthrough


Lava lamps, lottery balls and mouse cursors have long stood in for real-world randomness. Now JPMorgan Chase, with a 56-qubit machine and a theoretical physicist, has demonstrated a quantum leap: r…

Published yesterday (May 26) in Nature, a study from JPMorgan Chase researchers —alongside collaborators at Argonne and Oak Ridge national labs and the University of Texas at Austin—demonstrates how a quantum computer generates “certified” randomness. Quantum computing has attracted increasing attention from tech and financial firms, which hope to use it to solve problems today’s supercomputers cannot. JPMorgan’s Marco Pistoia, head of global tech applied research, called the result a major milestone—not just for quantum hardware but also for fields like statistical sampling, simulation and cryptography.

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