Europe's first quantum supercomputer with over 5,000 qubits has been launched at the Jülich Research Center in Germany. Representatives of the center said that this is an important milestone in the development of quantum computers in Europe.

The quantum supercomputer, built by Canadian quantum computing systems provider D-Wave, is the company's most powerful computer to date. It is also the first time this product has been installed outside of the company's headquarters.

This quantum supercomputer is designed to solve optimization and sampling problems. The advantage of the quantum annealing method is that its systemic stability is much higher than that of the quantum gate method. Thanks to this quantum supercomputer and the D-Wave quantum system with remote cloud access installed at the Jülich Research Center, the center can participate in the practical application of quantum computing at an early stage.

Quantum supercomputers promise to revolutionize drug development, cybersecurity, and financial modeling. They also optimize weather forecasting and many other areas that classical computers can't handle.

In order to realize the commercial application of quantum computing as soon as possible, the center has created the Jülich Custom Infrastructure for Quantum Computing (JUNIQ). This will provide convenient access to quantum computing systems for various user groups in Europe. In the future, the Jülich Research Center will provide premises for researchers from Germany and other EU countries. Companies will also have access to JUNIQ to help them use quantum supercomputers.

Previously, Mark Webber of the University of Sussex, UK, and colleagues studied how powerful a quantum computer would be needed to crack bitcoin in terms of the number of qubits.

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