{"id":196,"date":"2016-03-06T08:47:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T08:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/?p=196"},"modified":"2016-03-17T12:44:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T12:44:24","slug":"developing-a-new-performance-with-a-new-quantum-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2016\/03\/06\/developing-a-new-performance-with-a-new-quantum-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing a new performance with a new quantum computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plymouth.ac.uk\/staff\/alexis-kirke\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Alexis Kirke<\/a>, a Senior Research Fellow of\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/cmr.soc.plymouth.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">ICCMR<\/a>\u00a0(Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research) at Plymouth University, has begun\u00a0a two-week residency at the University of Southern California (USC) in the <a href=\"http:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/physics\/quantum-information-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quantum Computation and Open Quantum Systems (QCOQS) group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alexis\u00a0has been invited to\u00a0collaborate with this world-leading research group to develop a musical performance using its $15m quantum computer \u2013 one of only two machines of its kind sold in the world (the other of which has been sold to a Google\/NASA partnership).<\/p>\n<p>Quantum computers use the anti-intuitive properties of quantum mechanics, such as entanglement, to achieve\u00a0speed gains over normal computers of many orders.\u00a0Google recently demonstrated a quantum computer of the type Alexis is\u00a0using,\u00a0to speed up the solution of certain\u00a0problems by 100 million times.<\/p>\n<p>While at USC, Alexis is working\u00a0with Professor\u00a0Daniel Lidar, one of the top 20 authors in quantum computing research for the decade 2000-2009,\u00a0and the academic with responsibility for\u00a0the computer at Marina Del Ray in Los Angeles. They are\u00a0developing the public\u00a0performance utilising this new\u00a0D-Wave 2-X\u00a0computer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/03\/dwaveanddaniel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-197\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/03\/dwaveanddaniel-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"dwaveanddaniel\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/03\/dwaveanddaniel-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/03\/dwaveanddaniel-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/03\/dwaveanddaniel-260x195.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/03\/dwaveanddaniel-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/03\/dwaveanddaniel.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Professor\u00a0Daniel Lidar with D-Wave1<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Alexis Kirke, a Senior Research Fellow of\u00a0the ICCMR\u00a0(Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research) at Plymouth University, has begun\u00a0a two-week residency at the University of Southern California (USC) in the Quantum Computation and Open Quantum Systems (QCOQS) group. Alexis\u00a0has been invited to\u00a0collaborate with this world-leading research group to develop a musical performance using its $15m&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2016\/03\/06\/developing-a-new-performance-with-a-new-quantum-computer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Developing a new performance with a new quantum computer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,138],"tags":[96,75,37,14,97],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-transdisciplinary-creative-practices","tag-alexis-kirke","tag-iccmr","tag-music","tag-performance","tag-quantum-physics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}