Can you imagine a computer doing extraordinarily complex calculations, the kind that even just thinking about it already causes vertigo, while you calmly sip a cup of coffee? Well, maybe you don't have to imagine it that much.
A group of Chinese research centers, led by Jian-Wei Pan and Chao-Yang Lu, has created a quantum system called Jiuzhang which has been capable of solving extremely complicated calculations in 200 seconds.