AWS unboxes quantum cat qubit kit called Ocelot Amazon Web Services on Thursday announced Ocelot, a quantum computing chip based on "cat qubits." The feline moniker is a reference to Erwin Schrödinger's famous thought experiment involving a cat in a box with a device that has an equal chance of killing or not killing the animal at the end of an hour. The point of that …
Hmmm ... if I understand well then, this Amazonian study concerns challenges related to entangled quantum cat oscillators, with grainy amplitudes, hanging together in a box, by their tails, under an apparatus that might send them to meet their maker, or not, within the hour. The cats might shift around and flip about causing errors in the device's operation whereby, if experiments are run 100 times, the observed probability of finding cats in given states won't match the expected %50 predicted by theory, at all (a major issue).
To help with this then, you concatenate the cats with fluffy transmons, adding in extra cat-transmons to maintain a distance-5 relative position between them, eventually forming an ocelot-centipede that properly stuffs the whole box and then ... WaMmO! ... no more flip and shift errors. That's brilliant iiuc, especially for superconducting cats that are so hard to herd, even when stuck in a box ... but I'd suggest thinking of the cats a wee qubit, and maybe doing these experiments with bosons instead, or somesuch, imho!
"superconducting cats"
My immediate image was of two cats backs arched, tails thrashing shrieking at each other ceaselessly hurtling through a superconductor Cooper pair like. Much like US partisan politics.
I imagine the force carrier for the cattyness field would be the moggyon boson which oddly appear to be able to entangle with components of many human human nervous systems.
Placing a live moggy in a shoebox with a Geiger counter, a chunk of radium and vial of cyanide is more likely to release a cosmic shower of rather hostile moggyons than to demonstrate any deep principle of quantum epistemology.
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For the gigabucks involve rhymes with "lossalot."
Following the cat analogy and its precursor braket I might have decided on Pyewackett for the magical and mystic or occult associations although Gillian Holroyd's familiar, a Siamese cat, shot threw when she became human. Not much chance of that misfortune befalling Bezos, I should think.
† bra+ket = <| and |> - my how those QM parties must hum along! |>†<|† is probably an obscene suggestion.
