{"id":209639,"date":"2025-03-24T17:15:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T22:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/how-qubits-are-rewriting-the-rules-of-computation"},"modified":"2025-03-24T17:15:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T22:15:29","slug":"how-qubits-are-rewriting-the-rules-of-computation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/how-qubits-are-rewriting-the-rules-of-computation","title":{"rendered":"How Qubits Are Rewriting the Rules of Computation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-qubits-are-rewriting-the-rules-of-computation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For as long as we\u2019ve been building computers, it feels like we\u2019ve been speaking the same language \u2014 the language of <strong class=\"\">bits<\/strong>. Think of <em class=\"\">bits<\/em> as tiny switches, each stubbornly stuck in either an \u2018on\u2019 or \u2018off\u2019 position, representing the 1s and 0s that underpin everything digital. And for decades, refining these switches, making them smaller and faster, has been the name of the game. We\u2019ve ridden the wave of Moore\u2019s Law, achieving incredible feats of computation with this binary system. But what if, perhaps, we\u2019ve been looking at computation in just black and white, when a whole spectrum of possibilities exists?<\/p>\n<p>Bravyi, Dial, Gambetta, Gil, and Nazario from IBM Quantum in \u201c<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2209.06841\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">The Future of Quantum Computing with Superconducting Qubits<\/a>\u201d say.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>For the first time in history, we are seeing a branching point in computing paradigms with the emergence of quantum processing units (QPUs).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For as long as we\u2019ve been building computers, it feels like we\u2019ve been speaking the same language \u2014 the language of bits. Think of bits as tiny switches, each stubbornly stuck in either an \u2018on\u2019 or \u2018off\u2019 position, representing the 1s and 0s that underpin everything digital. And for decades, refining these switches, making them [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209639","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}