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Can Quantum Computing Solve Everything?
A brief story about classical and quantum computing
“Nature isn’t classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you’d better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly, it’s a wonderful problem because it doesn’t look easy.”-Richard Feynman
As a student (I call myself a student, as every day I come across a new invention, and I often wonder how little I know...) of physics, I have always been very interested in knowing the unknown and seeing the unseen. To understand the mysteries of the universe, we have to dig deep into what is happening at the fundamental level of individual particles, and we need to know the dynamics of things such as photons and electrons, which is the theory of quantum physics.
Hey! Do not worry; I will not discuss quantum theory here. We can jump into the main topic now…
Classical vs Quantum
Our regular (classical) computers operate on a fundamental unit of information called the bit, which is nothing but a binary digit that is either zero or one, and one can be quite restrictive.
Quantum computers are significantly different from ordinary computers in that they process information using quantum physics. Imagine a situation where our bit is not quite a zero and…
