Aiming for Quantum Computer
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There is strong belief among researchers in the emerge of a quantum computer. It can be partly stated to already be reality, but is its future at the stage to which it is most blazed.
Veijo Hänninen
The author has been working as a journalist of professional electronic magazines and is now publishing the nanobitteja.fi website focusing on future electronics.
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Aiming for Quantum Computer - Veijo Hänninen
FUTURE
QUANTUM COMPUTER
Revolution or not
The quantum computer has raised a lot of interest, particularly in the sense that it would be able to disable the data protection methods that are currently widely in use, i.e. internet encryption.
The fact that we delve deeper in to the quantum world, naturally also interests researchers and scientists in particular.
The subject is also occasionally present among information technology users, but the theme of this book is how the subject is currently progressing.
There is a strong belief among researchers in the emergence of a quantum computer. It can be partially said to already be a reality, but it is yet to be seen whether it will reach the level at which it is most blazed.
From quantum limits to quantum space
Nowadays, electronics and information technology dive even deeper in to the quantum world.
It used to think quantum mechanics was actually a type of endpoint for the development of information technology; since all the components keep getting smaller, they eventually reach the fragile phenomena of the quantum world.
In 1985, theoretical physicist, David Deutsch, from the University of Oxford counterversed this composition. He proved that quantum mechanics does not limit computing in any way, but rather, expands on it in an amazing manner.
While the advantage of standard information technology’s circuit engineering is component density, the advantage of the quantum computer is not the density of qubits as such, rather the possibility to operate with the superposition of quantum states. The basis of the quantum computer’s operation can certainly be sought at even a level of one atom.
Computing space
Quantum physics involves the mathematical concept Hilbert space, which is a certain type of space of vectors
. Although the classical state space is infinite, time only runs in one direction.
In physicist Robert Penronen’s words, Hilbert space is the same as the universe, where time and all possible vectors run in all possible directions
.
These additional degrees of freedom provide an amazing bonus, and for this reason the quantum computer can calculate certain things extremely quickly. That is, it can reach an infinitely larger space - Hilbert space - than a traditional computer.
Computing method
Traditional computers calculate step-by-step, using a method called serial computing. They can also breakdown the computation work by separately calculating, for example, the units, tens, hundreds and thousands, and then, at the end, combining the results. The time to execute parallel computing such as this is divided among the participating portions.
But quantum computers also work by using a method called massively parallel computing. The quick implementation of parallel logic operations is achieved with a superposition of states.
Normal computers utilise transistor-based logic gates, which are circuits found throughout circuit boards. Quantum logic gates work with a superposition of qubit states. In other words, with specific spatial states.
When Deutsch developed massively parallel computing, he recognised that it was an excellent and strong solution, which looks for suitable problems.
Finding them is a work of its own, to create an algorithm.
Decoherence
Although quantum computing is efficient, it is also technically incoherent.
The properties of quantum computing that make it extremely efficient also make it exceptionally vulnerable.
The core of quantum computing is quantum entanglement. Entanglement allows qubits and their combinations to be processed as one unit, because they are inseparably connected to each other. But this makes it also very sensitive to unwanted interference from the outer environment. Interferences can make the entire chain of entangled qubits collapse in to a queue of traditional random bits, in which case the original computing objective has been lost.
This problem almost caused development to collapse. But developers accepted, for example, the necessity of errors caused by noise and invented various methods to correct errors. Since the computing power is so strong, a lot of resources, or qubits, can be sacrificed for the correction of errors.
Complex hardware
The current experimental implementations of quantum computers are based on various solutions. In principle, a two-state physical system is sufficient for forming qubits. Technically speaking, the most difficult part is to keep the qubits, and the various states formed with them, isolated from external interferences, or else the quantum mechanical properties of qubits are lost. One basic solution for this is to keep the temperature of qubits extremely close to absolute zero.
Lasers and accurate microwaves and/or other electro-magnetic waves can be used to modify the states of qubits, but in more recent solutions, control is managed with voltages.
Of course, the control of such complex operations requires traditional control technology, such as for entering quantum computing inputs and calculating the results.
How does quantum computing work?
The basic operating unit of a quantum computer is a qubit. It can be any two-state quantum system. They are apparent in, for example, atoms, electrons, photons or superconducting connections. The idea is that their two states can be placed in