IBM scientists and researchers have made some really incredible advances toward quantum computing in regard to "retaining the integrity of quantum mechanical properties and quantum bit (qubits) and reducing errors in elementary computations." Quantum computing was proposed by Richard Feynman, a Nobel prize-winning physicist, in 1981, but at this point there are no practical quantum computers; quantum computing at this time is still just experimental.
In quantum mechanics, particles of matter can exist in multiple states simultaneously (i.e. "on" and "off"). This is kind of hard or the average individual to wrap their head around! You think that's hard to comprehend? How about the fact that a single 250-qubit state contains more bits of information then there are atoms in the universe...fascinating! For more than 50 years, scientists have theorized that harnessing these properties for computing would be the natural progression from today's silicon-based transistors. IBM researchers speculate that quantum computers would have the ability to work on millions of computations at one and potentially have the ability to solve previously unsolvable mathematical problems.
IBM's "superconducting qubit device" is approximately 1 mm and exists as a "qubit in the center of the cavity on a small sapphire chip," and although the device appears big income. Send to some of the "tiny conventional computer chips currently in use," IBM's scientists envision that future scaling will make it possible to operate perhaps thousands of qubits on the device the size.
Amazing…it sounds like the future is now people!
The link to my article: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2400930,00.asp
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