TITLE:
The Future of Quantum Computer Advantage
AUTHORS:
Jimmy Chen
KEYWORDS:
Quantum Computers, Qubit, Decoherence, Superposition, Entanglement, Parallelism, Hadamard Gates, Shor’s Algorithm, Bloch Sphere, Moore’s Law
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Computational Mathematics,
Vol.13 No.4,
December
19,
2023
ABSTRACT: As technological innovations in
computers begin to advance past their limit (Moore’s law), a new problem arises: What
computational device would emerge after
the classical supercomputers reach their physical limitations? At this
moment in time, quantum computers are at their starting stage and there
are already some strengths and advantages when compared with modern, classical computers. In its testing period, there are a
variety of ways to create a quantum computer
by processes such as the trapped-ion and the spin-dot methods. Nowadays, there are many drawbacks with quantum
computers such as issues with decoherence and scalability, but many of
these issues are easily emended. Nevertheless, the benefits of quantum
computers at the moment outweigh the
potential drawbacks. These benefits include its use of many properties
of quantum mechanics such as quantum superposition, entanglement, and parallelism. Using these basic properties of
quantum mechanics, quantum computers are capable of achieving faster
computational times for certain problems such as finding prime factors of an
integer by using Shor’s algorithm. From the
advantages such as faster computing times in certain situations and higher computing
powers than classical computers, quantum computers have a high
probability to be the future of computing after classical computers hit their
peak.