Joseph Reyes
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Quantum Computing In our search to conquer all the biggest things in life, our technology gets smaller and smaller every year. We went from having floppy disks that could only hold 1.4MB of data to a usb flash drive that can now store up an over a terabyte of data. The recent explosion in this cheap, high-capacity hardware is down to the ability of computer engineers to reduce the size of the memory cells that make up the devices. Currently engineers can pack the cells closer together – in modern storage devices, the cells can often be separated by as little as 25 nanometers. And progress has been rapid: the number of transistors on a chip doubles roughly every 18 months (Colin). All of this still following the Moore’s Law standard. Future developments will also come from probing a scale one hundred times smaller than the cells in current silicon chips – the realm of quantum computers. "Quantum computing is computation at the level of individual atoms, molecules and photons," says Artur Ekert, professor of quantum physics at the University of Oxford.
According to Swapnil Srivastava Quantum mechanics arose as a superior theory, due to the fundamental failure of classical mechanics to describe several atomic phenomena. With the discovery of electron, by J.J. Thomson, in the year 1897, the whole idea of classical physics was shown to be inapplicable at the atomic level. Classical physics, which was governed by Newton's laws of motion and Maxwell's laws of electromagnetism, was used to define and predict the motion of particles.
The challenges we face today with our current computer systems could be a thing of the past with quantum computers. Quantum computing is one of the most interesting things happening in science today, but it’s also one of the hardest to talk about. As its laudably concrete name suggests, quantum computing combines two fields of scientific inquiry: quantum physics, which many people already struggle to understand (by reading books by Brian Greene, Michio Kaku, and others); and computing, which, because this year is the centenary of Alan Turing, is finally starting to get a little attention. Essentially, the goal is to build an incredibly small computer. Now, the physicists, mathematicians, and computer scientists who work on quantum computing think that they might provide a kind of computational wiggle-room. A computer built on that scale might be able to solve problems that today’s computers cannot solve (Rothman). Commercial quantum computers are still decades away, but physicists have already built simple versions by trapping atoms using magnetic fields and lasers – the trapped atom corresponds to a qubit (a “qubit” is quantum computing’s version of a bit.) For some physicists, including Deutsch, a real working quantum computer would give us concrete proof of some of the stranger aspects of quantum theory. These experimental computers currently fill entire rooms; much like the early electronic computers did in the 1950s and 1960s. Ekert believes nanotechnologists will need to work hard to find ways to make a "convenient commercial interface between quantum technology and the everyday world". In its simplest sense, a computer is just a machine capable of performing computations. It doesn't have to be electronic. Tom Ran, of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, works with computers made out of strands of DNA. "Working this way, we can get three trillion computers, working in parallel, in a space the size of a water droplet," he says. The 0s and 1s of conventional computers are replaced with the four DNA bases: A, C, G and T (Colin).
With this quantum system operations can be translated into strands of DNA using these bases, and the way the DNA strands interact with each other produces new strands which can be decoded as output values. The attraction is that these inherently biological computers can interact directly with living cells. One goal is to program
Quantum Bits Unit of information and future of Computing Arun Malik Software Engineering Department San Jose State University San Jose, USA malikarun86@gmail.com Abstract— Qubit is a unit of quantum information in quantum computing. A classical computer performs operation using classical bits, which can be either 0 or 1. In contrast a quantum computer uses quantum bits or qubits and they can be both 0 and 1 at the same time. And it is this feature that gives quantum computer its superior computing…
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Nanotechnology in quantum physics, and reformation of war. Questioning quantum computers can never be over analyzed. At first glance quantum technologies may seem unenchanting, however its study is a necessity for anyone wishing to intellectually advance beyond their current abilities. Cited by many as to be one of the most important influencing inventions on post-modern nanotechnologies, quantum processing would feature even more in the ideals of the young and upwardly mobile generations…
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adoption model for the purpose of meeting business objectives Instructions: Get into groups based on your interest in the following technologies: 3D Displays Geo-location (and Proximity) Artificial Intelligence Nanotechnology Mobile/cloud computing Quantum computing You will use this chosen technology as the basis for your work for this assignment, so make sure that you pick a technology that is both interesting and relevant to you. Now, based on your group (“groups of one” are acceptable), imagine…
scientific breakthrough in terms of Thomas Kuhn's paradigm shift as articulated in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 3. Discuss the philosophical implications of some aspect of physics such as Newtonian causality, the breakdown of causality in quantum mechanics, the idea of action at a distance, the concept of entropy, the quantization of energy, or the relationship of causality and free will. 4. Discuss how a scientific idea affected the arts, the development of technology, politics, economics…
mineral exploration. She also is responsible for the detection of metal for quality assurance in manufacturing, electrode-less heart monitors and remote detection of contraband at airports, terahertz imaging, submarine and UXO detection and quantum computing. Cathy Foley is shaping the future of Australian Science, as to reiterate from above is encouraging women to embrace science. Foley is one of the only few Australian women who hold such a senior position in Science. Not only this, Foley has…
The Higgs Boson, commonly called “the God particle” is part of the standard model of particle physics. "The God particle" comes from the title of Leon Lederman's book on the topic and stuck although it has nothing to do with God. The Standard Model was put together in its final form in the 1970’s with the confirmation of the existence of quarks and consists of the simplest explanations for the behavior of particle physics. In the early 1960 the first high energy particle collisions were experimentally…
Technology Review’s San Francisco bureau chief, Tom Simonite, at the offices of his venture capital firm, Founders Fund. One of the most striking claims in your book is that we haven’t had significant technological progress since around 1970. What about computing? Progress in computers and the Internet helps with communications, and it’s enabled us to make things far more efficient. On the other hand, most other fields of engineering have been bad things to go into since the 1970s: nuclear engineering, aero-…