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Why Quantum Computing Is Cool. Eugeniu Plamadeala Graduate student in physics “. .. and if you want to make a simulation of Nature, you’d better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it’s a wonderful problem, because it doesn’t look so easy.”
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Why Quantum Computing Is Cool EugeniuPlamadeala Graduate student in physics “. .. and if you want to make a simulation of Nature, you’d better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it’s a wonderful problem, because it doesn’t look so easy.” — Richard P. Feynman, “Simulating Physics with Computers”, May 1981
Operations on Classical computer Protein length 10 106 one million
Operations on Classical computer Protein length 50 1030
Operations on Classical computer Protein length 150 1090 > age of the universe
Classical computers Hard
Quantum computers Easy