{"id":174570,"date":"2023-10-22T10:22:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T15:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/quantum-computing-for-complete-beginners"},"modified":"2023-10-22T10:22:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T15:22:30","slug":"quantum-computing-for-complete-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/quantum-computing-for-complete-beginners","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Computing for Complete Beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-computing-for-complete-beginners.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some have described the last several millennia of human dominion over the earth\u2019s resources as the <em class=\"\">anthropocene<\/em>, deriving from the Greek \u201canthropo\u201d meaning human, and \u201ccene\u201d meaning recent. The last century in particular has been dubbed the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/focus\/fourth-industrial-revolution\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">fourth industrial revolution<\/a>, due to the pace of technological innovation ushered in by the advent of computers in the middle of the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>In the past seventy years, computation has transformed every aspect of society, enabling efficient production at an accelerated rate, displacing human labour from chiefly production to services, and exponentially augmenting information storage, generation, and transmission through telecommunications.<\/p>\n<p>How did we get here? Fundamentally, technological advancement draws on existing science. Without an understanding of the nature of electromagnetism and the structure of atoms, we wouldn\u2019t have electricity and the integrated circuitry that power computers. It was only a matter of time, then, before we thought of exploiting the most accurate, fundamental description of physical reality provided by <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum_mechanics\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">quantum mechanics<\/a> for computation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some have described the last several millennia of human dominion over the earth\u2019s resources as the anthropocene, deriving from the Greek \u201canthropo\u201d meaning human, and \u201ccene\u201d meaning recent. The last century in particular has been dubbed the fourth industrial revolution, due to the pace of technological innovation ushered in by the advent of computers in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}