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An excerpt from the above article wrote:Researchers at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands have succeeded in carrying out calculations with two quantum bits, the building blocks of a possible future quantum computer. The result was achieved by Ph.D. student Jelle Plantenberg in a team led by professors Kees Harmans and Hans Mooij.
The research took place within the FOM (Dutch Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter) concentration group for Solid State Quantum Information Processing.
If realized, quantum computers could theoretically carry out tasks far beyond the abilities of all normal computers. In a quantum system, a quantum bit, also known as a qubit, exists in two states at the same time and the information from two qubits is entangled in a way that has no equivalent whatsoever in the normal world.
Interesting, but wouldn't the computer have to operate and incredibly low temperatures?
A quantum computer (at least as currently proposed) would probably not be viable for the average computer user (or tech company), as they would require a massive cooling unit.
I think.
Quantum mechanics makes my brain hurt.
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it would not be viable for consumer use for sure. this is something that would only be pertinent for very high level computing. the big advantage to a quantum computer would be the incredible speed with which it could process and store data. currently, a bit (binary digit) is either on or off. a cubit has three states (if my understanding is correct) and that increases the power and capabilities of that machine exponentially.
instead of ones and zeros, you'd be dealing with bits that have on, off, and on/off states which also work in funny ways with each other when creating the computer equivalent of a byte (8 bits). from the reading I've done this has it's more prevalent uses in nanotechnology, but I don't have any articles on that to pass on. theoretically, though, a quantum computer could be used to control millions of nano-robots with ease where a regular computer could not work fast enough.
as far as the temperatures go, i can't find anything that actually states an operating range, but yeah, you'd have to keep the damn thing cold as hell.
