Publication | Closed Access
Quantum Computing: Dream or Nightmare?
155
Citations
0
References
1996
Year
Quantum SoftwareQuantum System SoftwareEngineeringQuantum ProgrammingQuantum EngineeringQuantum ApplicationsQuantum LogicQuantum ComputingUnconventional ComputingQuantum ControlQuantum NetworkQuantum EntanglementQuantum ElectronicsQuantum AlgorithmQuantum RoutersSuperposition PrincipleComputer ScienceQuantum Runtime SystemsQuantum CompilersQuantum Software EngineeringTechnologyQuantum HardwareQuantum Algorithms
The principles of quantum computing were laid out about 15 years ago by computer scientists applying the superposition principle of quantum mechanics to computer operation. Quantum computing has recently become a hot topic in physics, with the recognition that a two-level system can be presented as a quantum bit, or “qubit,” and that an interaction between such systems could lead to the building of quantum gates obeying nonclassical logic. (See PHYSICS TODAY, October 1995, page 24 and March 1996, page 21.)