Project Chandelier

One of the Chandelier's dilution refrigerators to cool down the quantum processors. The chandelier shape of the refrigerators is how the project got its name.

Project Chandelier is a Janpian Quantum Computer, currently in development by the D-Arithmos Systems Workers' Union, with special support from the Ministry of Industrial Development. The aim of the project is to create a computer capable of directing and controlling the Party's overall economic planning, as well as to develop other synergetic systems to replace certain computers that utilize traditional sorting algorithms or rely on certain aspects of computational time complexity. As commonly found in quantum computers, Project Chandelier employs qubits, which utilize superposition to make a superposition of 1 and 0 possible, as compared to bits which can only exist in separate 1 and 0 states.

According to the D-Arithmos Systems Union, Project Chandelier will be capable of assisting the Party's space development projects, owing to the capacity of the computer to recall information within spacecraft instructional databases in a quicker fashion than conventionally possible. Additional claims by the Union are that this will assist in the rapid decryption of public keys, reducing the necessary time for this process from weeks to hours, which it believes could have potential benefits for encryption in Janpia and cybersecurity measures as a whole. The Union has also promised other opportunities in physics and mathematical simulation once the system is operational, although their primary goal as it currently stands is on the economic implications of the system, including the capacity for automated economic decision making.

Origins

Before Project Chandelier, the D-Arithmos Systems Union was primarily focused on the development of artificial intelligence, including participation in conventions relating to such, organization of programmer meetings, provision of programming solutions relating to such, and the beginning of work on theoretical studies relating to the role of computers involving quantum physics. In 2014, Urescha Toromii was elected as their representative to the Workers' Council, coming to prominence before such as a notable programmer and the head of the union's study on the computational quantum simulations theorem, additionally working on quantum machine learning. His primary interest is in the development of computers requiring less utilization of big-O notation, a change which would be a boon to the speed of said computers, with these efforts being inspired by the design of SACHI, the artifical system governing Darlingtown.

Under Urescha's leadership, the union's focus has pivoted from theoretical studies to the implementation of practical applications for quantum computing technology, including the development of an functioning quantum computer. The primary cited vision for this plan was the development of a system which could surpass SACHI, utilizing superior database storage and information processing technologies to create a system which could manage the functions of the Party in a direct fashion, in what he has called "Algorithmic Governance".

In 2015 the first operational Janpian quantum processor was developed by the union, this initial system being known as DASQ-1 (Dusk-1), a 6 qubit photonic quantum processor, utilized for the purposes of processing the database of the Kalingrad Medical Institute. At that time, the DASQ-1 presented a notable advancement in comparison to normal 6 bit processors, which were only capable of processing 64 binary states sequentially owing to the nature of how regulars computers process data. A qbit, as used by the DASQ-1 would allow for the ability to process these binary states simultaneously due to the nature of superposition, meaning it is able operate in a more efficient manner in comparison to traditional systems and thus that it is able to more quickly accomplish key functions.

The public release of the DASQ-1 processor would garner notable media, scientific, and Party attention - with the latter, most especially the Ministry of Industrial Development, beginning to provide support for the development of quantum compute systems. More specifically, the MID would offer a contract to develop means to replace the necessity of the Ministry of Economics and Trade, with the MID providing the necessary funding, resources, and manpower in exchange for a guarantee that such a system would be developed in under 50 years.

This agreement was signed in August 2016, with the official beginning of the project following swiftly. The new system would initially be named the DASQ-2, but due to the hanging of dilution refrigerators on the ceiling for cooling purposes, it would garner the unofficial (and eventually officially adopted) name of Chandelier.

Design

As inherent to the agreement, D-Arithmos would begin development of a project which could utilize the a new form quantum processor for economic and mathematic planning purposes in a modular, scalable format. It has been determined that maintaining a system of circuit-based development and traditional utilization of logic gates for computing and functioning purposes is the most effective means of creating a viable product, excluding the inherent differences in the logic gates required by the capacity for the superpositioning of 1 and 0.

The dilution refrigeration system which the project received its name from creates and maintains a sub-zero temperature environment, with an average temperature of -273.1415 Celsius, or -459.6547 Fahrenheit. This system was developed by the internal cytotechnology department of D-Arithmos, with support from the Ministry of Industrial Development. (TBA)