Quantum Computing: "A Nearing Future"

Following is a little article I wrote up back in 2018 for my college magazine. I was 16/17 and stupid, today kids are busy raising millions for startup but I was just figuring out coding, ego-fighting with friends and trying to get a girl out of pure FOMO and status back in college.
So yeah this blog has a lot of grammar mistakes, but I intend to keep it as is because it would be fun to read this later and hey in todays world where everything is heavily moderated using AI tools, its good to have some raw unedited content too. hehe.

Quantum Computing vs Traditional Computing

A Quantum computer is a computer which is like 50 times faster than today’s fastest super computer. But we are still bit far from a fully functional Quantum Computer which could do some heavy complicated mathematical stuff. Like a traditional computer got bits and bytes of binary data a Quantum computer got Qubits. The Quantum Computing term also has a relation with other fields of science such as Quantum Physics and Mechanics, Photon Computing. Today maintaining a Quantum Computer is bit of a difficult task. These computers run at nearly less than -3500C. There complex systems are stored in large tank like structures.

Now well you would have thought why these -0C. In a Traditional Computer the bits stores 1s or 0s in a single place. But Qubits which make up these Quantum Computers doesn’t store a single digit but both in a single place. This is done by bringing the Qubit which is made up of pure Superconductors to a superposition. Bringing such an element to superposition requires a lot of freezing to sub Zero temperatures.

Superposition: to explain this concept let’s take a Coin. A coin has a head and a Tail now replace the head and tail with 1 and 0. When you spin the coin and wait till its speed drops and comes to a stable position it will show 1 or 0. But never shows both together. What if the coin never stopped spinning what would you say 1 or 0? Well now this could represent many digits in a single position like 1,0,10,01,11,00 and so on.

Trillions of logic gates (NAND & NOR) make up a small awesome Traditional Computer. The Quantum Computer has got a whole different set of logic gates working in a different complicated way.

One of the major challenges here is to bring every Qubit to superposition and creating Quantum Entanglement and then doing some small amount of quantum operations in it.

A Quantum Computer is just damn super speed theoretically. It could even decode an AES-256 security which is now a standard used by latest lockers. But today’s Traditional Computer can’t do this decoding it would take like months. This was just how a hacker could make use of Quantum Computer. But for the good people this could be used to do a lot of stuff like creating a random AES-256 hash table even before the security gets hacked by those hackers. We could also use this computer for doing complicated scientific things. What if we could just prove the big bang theory? Or just alter the Strings (In Astro Sense) to invent a new element for time traveling? It would be a serious fun if such a Computer could come very soon. We are waiting……

A Quick thought towards the future.

What if one day you could just go and buy a Quantum Computer from a nearby Store. And play a MR (Mixed Reality) Heavy UXHD (Ultra Extreme High Definition) 30K – 50K resolution just a Super Real Graphics game with super high frames reaching digits like 500 - 700 fps. It’s awesome right? Heck there’s a lot of time for such a thing to happen in the reality.

Recent Developments in Quantum Computing

• Google, IBM and many such tech giants have already started investing a lot on this technology.
• Google’s largest Quantum Computer Processor is a 72 qubit Superconducting system dubbed as Bristlestone.
• IBM has got its own Quantum Computer called IBM Q System One and its open for the public to use.
• Also, D-Wave created their own Quantum Computer the D-Wave 2000Q System.
• Microsoft also has a Quantum Computer which has got its own programming language the Q#.

[Alphons Jaimon - 2018]