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THE
QUANTUM
METHOD
Contemporary
Quantum
Computing
A quantum computer is any device
for computation that makes direct
use of distinctively quantum
mechanical phenomena, such as
superposition and entanglement, to fast pace, and this attracts funding from the w
perform operations on data. national government and military agencies to
Although quantum computing is support quantum computing research. This
still in its infancy, experiments have technology has developed quantum computers for
been carried out in which quantum both civilian and national security purposes, such The writer is a serial
entrepreneur in the elds of
computational operations were as cryptanalysis. innovative technology, business
executed on a very small number of Large-scale quantum computers may be able to facilitation and communication.
qubits. Research in both theoretical solve certain problems exponentially faster than He can be reached at
and applied areas continues at a any of our classical computers. maimun.m@gmail.com
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