Toward practical quantum computers: Built-in optics could enable chips that use trapped ions as quantum bits
Monday, August 8, 2016 - 11:05
in Physics & Chemistry
Quantum computers are largely hypothetical devices that could perform some calculations much more rapidly than conventional computers can. Instead of the bits of classical computation, which can represent 0 or 1, quantum computers consist of quantum bits, or qubits, which can, in some sense, represent 0 and 1 simultaneously.