Is Quantum Computing Closer Than We Thought?
Quantum computing could pave the way for better computer hardware technology in the foreseeing future. Lets face it – ‘It is no secret that silicon is reaching its limitations for use in microprocessors’, so what kind of technologies can we expect to emerge, and are they closer than we thought? The most talked about topic you will hear about as regards to future processors and technological progression is ‘quantum computing’. At the moment – current processors use binary code consisting of 1’s and 0’s to follow instructions, encode, decode and perform calculations. But quantum technology will revolusionise current technology as the theory of quantum computing, is to manipulate the spin of electrons (quantum particles), thus an electron can move in either of two directions, as well as having indeterminate spin positions, known as quantum states. This allows an electron to represent either ‘1’ or ‘0’ at the same time, which is the basis for the potentially huge power a quantum computer c
