What is the difference between quantum computers and quantum accelerators?

[jumanji]

Hello. Could you please explain to me what the difference is between quantum computers and quantum accelerators?

 

[fresh_42]

Hello. Could you please explain to me what the difference is between quantum computers and quantum accelerators?

There is no such thing as a quantum accelerator. If you mean a particle accelerator, then the two things are completely different. In a quantum computer you have to produce particles in a certain way, which you will also have to do in an accelerator, but not in an entangled way. And here end the similarities. An accelerator accelerates and smashes those particles, a quantum computer "measures" them. I don't know how they actually manufactured quantum computers, but Wikipedia should be of help here.

 

[jumanji]

https://insidehpc.com/2019/02/quantum-computing-from-qubits-to-quantum-accelerators/
This link maybe help you (but, I am afraid, not me). Wikipedia does not contain subjects about quantum accelerator .

 

[George Jones]

https://insidehpc.com/2019/02/quantum-computing-from-qubits-to-quantum-accelerators/
This link maybe help you (but, I am afraid, not me). Wikipedia does not contain subjects about quantum accelerator .

Careful: at a place like Physics Forum, many folks will take the term "accelerator" to mean "particle accelerator".

Some with background in (classical) computing will be familiar with the term "accelerator" in context of classical computing. From Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_acceleration
I suspect (but have not checked) that a quantum computer accelerator plays a somewhat similar role.

 

[jumanji]

Thank you.