Most Powerful Quantum Computer - San Jose, CA - Guinness World Records on Waymarking.com

The IBM Almaden Research Center is located on a somewhat secure hilltop in the Almaden area of San Jose, California. Two roads lead up to the center, but access is for IBM business only. As a bicyclist I was able to climb the hill on a weekend for pictures.

From the Guinness World Record website:

Whereas normal computers use a string of zeroes and ones (bytes) to represent data, experimental quantum computers use qubits, which can be a zero, one, or simultaneously both. On 20 December 2001, IBM's Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California, USA, announced that they had used a 7-qubit quantum computer to calculate the factors of the number 15. They used a billion billion molecules that have seven nuclear spins for the calculation. Consisting of the nucleii of five atoms of fluorine and two of carbon, these molecules are able to to interact with each other as qubits.

Here is the press release of "IBM's Test-Tube Quantum Computer Makes History".

Date the Record Happened: December 20, 2001 Where did this record happen: IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA Who Broke this record: International Business Machines (IBM) Is there something to see here?: No Website that Shows record happening or area now: [Web Link] What is there to see here: Not listed

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