Quantum computers?

[Hellmund]

What is a quantum computer supposed to be.
I've heard and read about BAllsemi and about the DNA comps but I havn't seen anything on quantum computers

[Hellmund]

I was curious and no-one posted so I did some research so if anyone else is curious try http://www.qubit.org.

[davnic]

Recommend picking up this months Scientific American - Apr.2000. It covers Quantum from teleportation to computing...

[Hellmund]

I live in Australia so I doubt I'll be able to get a copy of "Scientific American" magazine
Hellmund

[U-96]

hehe well I get here in the UK.... it's in regular bookshops.

They also have a limited-content site at www.scientificamerican.com (http://www.scientificamerican.com)

There is an interesting article on data storage (http://www.scientificamerican.com/2000/0500issue/0500toig.html) but I don't think the quantum article is available for free...

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[Krondor]

I don't know all the physics involved, but a quantum computer in lamens terms is just this. It is a computer that excites atoms on the subparticle letter to push them into different orbital levels around the atom. It uses an effect called quantum foam which is when electrons don't really belong to any level. All this happens at the speed of light making the computer extrememly fast. The electron levels act as code. An electron is read as either a 0 for a lower level a 1 for a higher level and a 1 0 or 0 1 for an in between level. Quantum computers are able to calculate maybes!!!! That's a huge leap as that is closer to the processes involved in the human brain. They won't be around for a LONG TIME, though, as the last article I read said that they were up to 4 transistors now. Your average High End system has over 10 million.
RYan

[Hellmund]

Yeh there's a bit of a differnce between 4 and 10 million.
Although once they get started it could increase exponentially.
Helllmund

[U-96]

Well if Moore's law holds true in quantum processors, we're looking at about 30 years.
I can wait.

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