Ahh, quantum computing. A very fascinating aspect of modern technology indeed, they’re going to revolutionize modern science with their faster calculation speeds. You should definitely check out this blog post if quantum mechanics is your cuppa joe.
Today your smartphone (4GB RAM) has 1,000,000 (1 million) times more memory than the computer used by NASA which sent the first human to space. This has been possible because of the rapid advancements in technology which has made computer chips faster and smaller. Moore’s law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years. But we have almost reached the peak of this expansion as we reach the size of an atom beyond which no progress is possible. At such small sizes we enter into the quantum realm where particles behave in unexpected ways which causes errors in normal computers. Quantum computers use these strange effects itself to their advantage.
While a normal computer stores information as bits i.e. 1’s and 0’s. Quantum computers uses qubit (quantum bits). These qubits are normally made up of an electron or the nucleus of a single phosphorus atom and uses…
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