Quantum Computing- The future of Computing
Stuti Shah Sheth
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Ever since Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada on his visit to the highly reputed Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo (Ontario), laid down his concrete opinions on quantum computing, this phenomenon has spread like wildfire and it has caught the attention of the tech aficionados all over the world. The footage however was captured by Trudeau as enthusiasts don’t really know if Trudeau knows his tech or was just pretending.
Taking The Quantum Leap
Since day and age, we’ve been raised to believe that almost every computer serves the same purpose; it’s just that one maybe faster to operate than the others. Well, that bubble has effectively burst now with the influx of new technologies and innovations which has taken over the computing world of today. When it comes to quantum computing, the essence of information behaves a whole lot differently than in the conventional world.
An entity, be it a PC or an electron can belong to up to a million different states. Not just that, it can also be applied to a super-position of those states which gives the entire system a sense of leverage and some handsome room to manoeuvre from input to the output. One can deem it similar to the case of Houdini picking a lock from an underwater shackle escape act. The ability to move freely will enable you to do and achieve so much more than if you were trapped. However, it’s not a matter of moving at a faster speed, but a matter of traversing spaces in different ways.
Before you get bummed down by all the formal and complexities of the matter at hand, let us first address the elephant in the room.
What Does Quantum Computing Mean?
Quantum computing is the application of highly complex and advanced laws of quantum mechanics with the purpose of processing critical information. Conventionally, a PC or a computer would process long tail strings of simple ‘bits’, which have the capability to encode and process either a one or a zero. However, a quantum computer will be able to process qubits or quantum bits. A ‘qubit’ is a part of a quantum system which will process and encode the one and the zero using 2 completely unique quantum states. That being said, because of the fact qubits tend to behave quantumly, the phenomenon of superposition and entanglement can be applied here. Well, all these terms might be looking mundane on the eyes, but if you’ve ever read basic quantum mechanics material, you would know the gravity of what we’re dealing with here.