“Quantum computer”, sounds like a term we might hear in a science-fiction movie but the truth is we are talking about a revolutionary technology that defies logic. The promise of developing a quantum computer is to solve complex problems that are impossible or would take a large amount of time for a classical computer, this would lead to new breakthroughs in science and change our lives. 🤩

Quantum mechanics emerged as a branch of physics in the early 1900s to explain nature and behaviour of matter and energy on the scale of atoms, it turns out atoms do not follow the traditional rules of physics and that quantum particles can move forward or backward in time, exist in two places at once, so understanding these strange behaviours and bringing them together with information theory concepts made quantum computing possible.

Quantum and classical computers both try to solve problems, but the way they manipulate data to get answers is fundamentally different, classical computing relies on the smallest unit of information “bits”, that is encoded over two states as an “On” or “Off”. However quantum computers manipulate “qbits” that use ones and zeros but also a third state called “superposition” which is a principle of quantum mechanics that describes the ability of a quantum object to simultaneously exist in multiple “states”, so instead of analyzing two states sequentially quantum computing allows more scenarios at the same time, therefore the computing time is significantly reduced

That was a brief explanation of quantum computers, and if your curiosity is triggered and you want to dive in deeper into this phenomenal invention don’t worry we have more to come stay tuned!