Quantum computing: the key players leading us into the quantum age
Quantum computing is the next generational shift in technology, and is quickly shifting from purely theoretical thought experiments in the labs to practical, commercially available quantum processors. In the cloud at least. And inside those chips reside the all-important qubits: particles that could change the way we compute on a grand scale.
While we’re not quite at the ‘quantum supremacy’ tipping point just yet, universities, researchers, and Silicon Valley companies are all entangled in quantum fever. But just how close are we to that quantum computing inflection point and who are the boffins trying to get us there?
Using Quantum bits, or qubits, these complex computers exist outside the binary 1s and 0s world of technology we know today. The parallel, interconnected power of qubits could one day revolutionise pharmaceutical research, material and chemical modelling, AI, cryptography, financial systems, and help humankind explore and understand the universe.
“Can a quantum system be simulated by a classical universal computer? In other words, a computer which will give the same probabilities as the quantum system does,” Richard Feynman, world-renowned theoretical physicist, quantum computing pioneer, and developer of the atomic bomb said at Caltech in 1982 (Int. Journal of Theoretical Phys., Vol. 21, 1982).
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