Quantum Computing

Quantum Computing

1. quantum computing is about pursuing the biggest boost in performance

2. The quantum computers have advantages that would allow an amazing progress.

3. Quantum computing hardware is still in embryonic phase

4. Google, IBM and others decided to invest heavily in technology

   • contributed $ 241 million in new companies that work in quantum computing hardware or software
     • triple the amount in the previous year

5. The prehistory of quantum computing begins at the beginning of the 20th century

   • First, the explanations provided from the subatomic world turned out to be incomplete

6. QUANTUM JUMPS

   • (1980) Physicist Paul Benioff suggests that quantum mechanics could be used for computation.
   • (1981) Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, at Caltech, coined the term quantum computer
   • (1985) The physicist David Deutsch, in Oxford, describes how a quantum computer would work, a model that underpins the incipient industry of today.
   • (1994) The mathematician Peter Shor, in the Bell laboratories, writes an algorithm that could take advantage of the power of a quantum computer to break the most used forms of encryption.
   • (2007) D-Wave, a Canadian startup, announces a quantum computing chip that says it can solve Sudoku puzzles, prompting years of debate over whether the company's technology really works.
   • (2013) Google joins NASA to fund a laboratory to test D-Wave hardware.
   • (2014) Google hires the professor behind some of the best quantum computer equipment to run his new quantum hardware lab.
   • (2016) IBM puts some of its prototype quantum processors on the Internet for anyone to experience, saying that programmers must prepare to write quantum code.
   • (2017) Startup Rigetti opens its own quantum computer manufacturing facility to build hardware prototypes and compete with Google and IBM.

7. What is a qubit?

   • A device that uses quantum mechanical effects to represent 0s and 1s of digital data

8. What is an overlay?

   • it makes quantum computers work, and makes qubits more powerful than ordinary bits.

9. What is quantum entanglement?

   • A quantum effect so unintuitive that Einstein called it "spooky action at a distance". When two qubits in an overlap are entangled, certain operations in one have instant effects in the other, a process that helps quantum algorithms become more powerful than conventional algorithms.

10. What is quantum acceleration?

    • A measure of how much faster a quantum computer could solve a problem than a conventional computer.

11. What the future holds for quantum computing

    • companies and governments have begun to treat quantum computing research as a career
    • law proposing new funds for quantum research, totaling more than $ 1.3 billion
    • omputadoras cuánticas pueden hacer que la inteligencia artificial sea más poderosa
    • have launched open source tools to help programmers become familiar with writing programs for quantum hardware

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