Who is scared of the Big Bad Quantum Computer?
• tweetmeme_source = ‘theurbantimes’; • Share • • Email Today’s computers, on the whole operate on the principles of electricity. But since a team of international designers designed a ‘photonic chip’ that operates on the principle of light, this is due to change. Logic dictates that this processor would pave the way for the production of hyper-fast quantum computers. Quantum computers in the home are still a fair way off, but given that many researchers in this field had believed they would not be a reality for at least 25 years, recent progress has got us well on our way. Initially, early systems would be geared towards the type of advanced simulations that are run by physicists, medical researchers and climate modellers. Director of the Centre for Quantum Photonics in the Uk and project leader, Jeremy O’Brien, told the Financial Times: “we can say with real confidence that, using our new technique, a quantum computer could, within five years, be performing calculations that are outs
