{"id":176836,"date":"2023-11-26T16:23:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T22:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/quantum-advantage-a-physicist-explains-the-future-of-computers"},"modified":"2023-11-26T16:23:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T22:23:19","slug":"quantum-advantage-a-physicist-explains-the-future-of-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/quantum-advantage-a-physicist-explains-the-future-of-computers","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Advantage: A Physicist Explains The Future of Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jHoEjvuPoB8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Quantum advantage is the milestone the field of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/quantum-computers\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">quantum computing<\/a> is fervently working toward, where a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/quantum-computers\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">quantum computer<\/a> can solve problems that are beyond the reach of the most powerful non-quantum, or classical, computers.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum refers to the scale of atoms and molecules where the laws of physics as we experience them break down and a different, counterintuitive set of laws apply. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/quantum-computers\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Quantum computers<\/a> take advantage of these strange behaviors to solve problems.<\/p>\n<p>There are some types of problems that are <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/limits-to-computing-a-computer-scientist-explains-why-even-in-the-age-of-ai-some-problems-are-just-too-difficult-191930\">impractical for classical computers to solve<\/a>, such as cracking state-of-the-art <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/quantum-cryptography\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">encryption<\/a> algorithms. Research in recent decades has shown that quantum computers have the potential to solve some of these problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum advantage is the milestone the field of quantum computing is fervently working toward, where a quantum computer can solve problems that are beyond the reach of the most powerful non-quantum, or classical, computers. Quantum refers to the scale of atoms and molecules where the laws of physics as we experience them break down and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1625,41,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-encryption","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176836","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=176836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}