Quantum Computing
What is quantum computing?
Quantum computing is essentially harnessing and
exploiting the amazing laws of quantum mechanics to process information. A
traditional computer uses long strings of “bits,” which encode either a zero or
a one. A quantum computer, on the other hand, uses quantum bits, or qubits.
What's the difference? Well a qubit is a quantum system that encodes the zero
and the one into two distinguishable quantum states. But, because qubits behave
quantumly, we can capitalize on the phenomena of "superposition" and
"entanglement."
