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qubit
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A quantum bit; the unit of quantum information; a bit in a quantum computer capable of being in a state of superposition.
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Each extra qubit in a quantum machine doubles the number of simultaneous operations it can perform.
Because each qubit can simultaneously process a zero and a one, a quantum computer could zip through lots of calculations in parallel.
A lone rubidium atom can exist in one of two different low-energy quantum states, meaning that it can act as a qubit store.
Each qubit is represented by a particular atom in every molecule, and all of the trillions of atoms corresponding to a particular qubit are manipulated at the same time.
Before a qubit is measured, for example, it could have a 90% chance of being 1, and a 10% chance of being 0. After the measurement, it takes on one of these two values.
Though a qubit may, for a while, be in a state of superposition between 0 and 1, it must eventually choose between the two.
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A 300-qubit computer could perform more concurrent operations than there are atoms in the visible universe.A coherent ideaUnfortunately, such a machine is not in the offing.
Most researchers believe that given the current sensitivity of this technology, liquid-NMR quantum computing will not really be feasible beyond a ten-qubit limit.So Dr Cory, along with Timothy Havel of Harvard and Raymond LaFlamme and Emanuel Knill of Los Alamos National Laboratories, is embarking on a project to use NMR in a solid.
A 20-qubit device could run over a million.
Computers that process qubits, which weirdly manage to be both 0 and 1 at the same time, are far faster at solving some problems—such as factoring large numbers into primes, a step in code-breaking.Mr Lazaridis explains with evident pride that researchers at IQC recently published the first experimental demonstration of a 12-qubit computer.
In 1998, a three-qubit device had been developed; two years later, the number was seven.A quantum leap of faithStill, a machine with tens of thousands of qubits will require a lot more work.
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