A Brief Introduction to Quantum Computing

Quantum physics to me was always this mystifying property which give unreal capabilities to subatomic particles. It was never anything more than just a great conversation starter I used to blow people’s minds away.

I mean come on, teleportation? Being in two place at once? Seems science fiction to me.

Now if you aren’t aware of quantum mechanics, basically electrons or any other subatomic particle have some wacky but neat super powers such as superposition, (the power to be a wave and a particle, at the same time) quantum tunnelling, (the power to bypass any barriers i.e move through walls) entanglement (the power to be psychic, like having a twin where if one is affected then simultaneously so is the other).

Neat, huh? Unfortunately us humans don’t have these super powers so these forces never really affect us or matter in the classical physics world.

Or so I thought.

Introducing: Quantum Computing

With quantum computing we can harness the super powers superposition and entanglement to solve complex problems that our classical computers cannot do. Thus a quantum computer uses the quantum phenomena of subatomic particles to compute complex mathematical problems.