The Quantum Computer and the Impact If Made Profitable
The first all around computer was the ENIAC that was created 1940's. This computer
was basically calculator, capable of addition, subtraction, multiplying, division, sign differentiation, and square root extraction. Computers since then have continually been getting more compact while improving in memory, RAM, speed and user friendliness. The modern computer now has transistors the size of eleven atoms. Because of such minuscule scales that computers now use, computers have now reached a theoretical speed bump in proficiency. Scientists have created computer that uses electrons. This computer is called a quantum computer. A quantum computer was sold to google for $10,000,000.00 million dollars( citation needed). Many scientists and computer technicians consider quantum computers not commercially viable, but emerging technologies will bring the quantum computer to the populace. While there are several critics, could we theoretically create a quantum computer for $30,000? ( CITATION). This paper examines the current cost of a quantum computer and how it correlates to our world. This paper will also review the physics behind the quantum computer and the history. The quantum computer will be compared to the traditional computer as well as it's advantages and disadvantages that would come if the quantum computer was commercially viable. Some of the issues would be national, international, ecological, privacy or technological concerns.
Before this paper addresses the concerns and benefits of the quantum computer we need to understand the technologies that manage this computer. Every basic computer has two outputs that are either on or off. It is best described as a light switch that can be switched on or
off and inside the light switch there is a transistor that stops the current from flowing. These outputs are called bits and we interact with with all the time. Softwares are then built upon such bits and programs are made that run scripts. The scripts then in turn run the operating system of the computer. In 2010 an Australian team managed to make a transistor that was five nanometers in width which roughly estimates to the length of seven atoms that are laid across in a straight line. This is the ending point of the classical computer and the threshold where quantum computing begins. Quantum computer differ from classical computers because of the processing system it uses. Instead of using bits, the quantum computer uses qubits.
Moreover a qubit is a quantum bit, as the quantum computing to the binary digit of classical computing. A qubit is the basic unit of information in a quantum computer. In a quantum computer, there are various elemental particles such as electrons, photons, helium atoms and even ions with either a negative charge or a positive charge that act as a representation of 0 or 1 similar to a bit. The particle can spin in two directions known as the spin up and...