Why Quantum Computing Is Cool

Eugeniu Plamadeala

Graduate student in physics

“. .. and if you want to make a simulation of Nature, you’d better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it’s a wonderful problem, because it doesn’t look so easy.”

— Richard P. Feynman, “Simulating Physics with Computers”, May 1981

So what's the problem?

Protein lengthOperations on Classical computer

10 106

one million

Protein lengthOperations on Classical computer

50 1030

Protein lengthOperations on Classical computer

150 1090 > age of the universe

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Classical computers

Classical computers

Hard

Quantum computers

Quantum computers

Easy

What is different?

Bit

Quantum Bit

or

365 days

Chemotherapy side effects: None

Superconducity

Philosophy

Logic

Consciousness

New Physics