Why Quantum Computing Is Cool
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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
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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.” - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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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
