secor77 Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 I recently have been researching Quantum Computing for an article I was writing. It's amazing how far along it has come. Google just recently hired Dr. Martinis from the University of California, Santa Barbara to help develop and working Quantum Computer. Google has been working with the DWave Two, but there is some controversy as to whether or not that is a fully quantum computer (it very likely is only quasi-quantum). This is a pretty cool development because there are all kinds of problems that could benefit from quantum computers. Problems that would take classical computers thousands of years. Just cool stuff. Google Leaps Into Quantum Computing (click at the top to close the annoying pop up)Here is the webpage for Dr. Martinis group Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secor77 Posted October 10, 2014 Author Share Posted October 10, 2014 Just to give you an idea of why we need quantum computers. The red line is a traditional computer, the yellow is a quantum computer. You can see that once you get to a certain molecular size or basis set size (basis set is just the equation with parameters used to solve the calculation) it pretty much takes an infinite amount of time with traditional computers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluemoon Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 "Problems that would take classical computers thousands of years." Such as, for instance:- cracking financial internet connections (& the like)? It will be a mixed blessing when we do. Organised crime and rogue states will eventually get them. They very quickly got both types of atom bomb secrets, which were presumably protected with the best secrecy controls at all possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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