This "Quantum Leap Beginner Guides" installment focuses on entanglement, a fundamental quantum property allowing intrinsic connection between quantum particles. This linkage enables a powerful computing capacity for quantum computers, and despite challenges like the fragility of qubits, significant progress continues. Entanglement also enhances the precision and speed of quantum sensors, offering transformative impacts across various fields, including defense, healthcare, and aerospace.
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The Quantum Leap’s Beginner Guide to “Superposition”
Superposition describes a quantum system’s ability to be in multiple states at the same time until it is measured. We can use superposition to impart additional information and features on qubits, which enables quantum computers to do things that classical computers cannot.
The Quantum Leap’s Beginner Guide to “Qubits”
As we learn to tame the quantum properties of elementary particles, we are finding that profound new things can be done including the creation of ultra-powerful sensors and computers.
Quantum Computing Modalities – A Qubit Primer Revisited
As noted in this post, there has been significant advancements in Quantum Computing hardware over the past year or so and I expect this momentum will continue in 2023. Presently there are QCs with 10s to 100s of qubits, and the coherence, connect-ability and control on these early machines continues to improve. There are various tradeoffs among the QC modalities, summarized in this post.
Quantum Computing “Noise”
There are several significant challenges facing QC makers today, and “noise” is one of the most difficult to overcome.
The Metaphysics of Quantum Computing
This latest post approaches Quantum Computing from a philosophical perspective. It’s an aspect of this field that originally gripped my attention and which underlies much of why quantum mechanics conjures such non-intuitive conclusions.
The Quantum Computing Elevator Pitch
Quantum Computers will transform the way we use computers by massively accelerating certain computations and, more importantly, by enabling a wholly new form of computing.
Cloud Based Quantum Computer Access – Available Today
People are using actual working Quantum Computers every day. Each of Amazon and Microsoft offer cloud access to several QC hardware systems, while players like Google, IBM, IonQ, Rigetti, Honeywell and others offer direct access to their systems via direct web-based interfaces.
Ten Fundamental Facts About Quantum Computing
I’ve covered some key aspects of Quantum Computing in prior posts and thought it would be helpful to synthesize and consolidate some of the fundamental properties of Quantum Computing to provide a bigger picture of the promise and potential of the industry
Qubits: A Primer
A high-level overview of various types of qubits. The good news is that many entities have created, manipulated and measured qubits and often there has been success in controlling them into superpositions and in entangling a limited but growing number of qubits at a time. For now, this is the NISQ landscape.
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