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It's not very detailed article but unlike most popular articles articles about quantum computing, it actually informs the public that quantum computing has phys
by hannibal5 13y ago
It's not very detailed article but unlike most popular articles articles about quantum computing, it actually informs the public that quantum computing has physical limits that technological advances can't overcome.
Those points you criticize are actually correct. Quantum computers could not solve problems you do with your laptop every day any significantly faster than normal computers.
People think that quantum computer is just massively parallel classical computer that makes 2^n computations in the same time as classical computer makes n computations. This is false. All quantum computations must use algorithms that create their results with interference between states.
- jonbaer 13y agoI think quantum (computing) really revolves around one single thing, the superposition. Either you believe in it, or you don't. The power of it has probably already been realized way before this article, it's just that it's @ a point where we can understand and use it because we have practical uses for it now.