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Can normal transistors act like a qubit?

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posted on Oct, 28 2016 @ 06:52 PM
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Quantum computing is good for answering certain types of problems, other problems it's not so great at answering.

For example, a quantum computer is actually pretty bad at computing 1+1 because it doesn't perform traditional calculations. However, it's very good at breaking encryption for that same reason. In both of these scenarios the computer has the problem (encryption key or 1+1) = answer and the answer is basically infinite. We can then select the one we want based on some probability algorithms and decide on what is most likely to be correct, and check it. For 1+1 this results in a minimum of 1 operation to answer, and more realistically more than 1 while traditionally 1+1 is a maximum of 1 operation.

On the other hand with encryption we can basically reverse engineer the encryption key from the answer which only requires a handful of checking, compared to the near infinite amount a brute force approach requires.

It's not really infinite computing power, but it doesn't line up with current big O notation either.



 
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