Try Your Hand At Quantum Computing

Following Watson, blockchain and artificial intelligence, quantum computing may provide the next powerful set of services delivered to solve our industry issues. Fortune 500 firms are trying their hand at Quantum Computing.

Quantum computing is a term that’s becoming more mainstream, but its complex nature means it’s not well understood beyond quantum physicists. 

What is quantum computing?

It is a computing model that harnesses the laws of quantum mechanics to process data. Quantum computing uses quantum bits or quits that can represent a one, a zero, or both at once. This is in contract to the binary digits used by classical computing.

From bits to quits

Quantum computing process information in quantum bits, or quits, which can hold more information than their classical counterparts and solve problems faster and more efficiently.

For the more technical, entangled quits in a superposition can be correlated with each other; that is, the state of one (whether it is a 1 or a 0) can depend on the state of another. A superposition is a principle of quantum theory that means each qubit can represent both a 1 and a 0 at the same time.

What about AI?

While technologies like AI or Artificial Intelligence , can find patterns buried in vast amounts of existing data, quantum computers will deliver solutions to important problems where patterns cannot be seen and the number of possibilities that you need to explore to get to the answer are too enormous ever to be processed by classical computers.

Examples of where Quantum Computing is creating breakthroughs

• In healthcare to advance the discovery of new medicines and materials by helping us untangle the complexities of molecular and chemical interactions. 

• In banking to make better investments by finding new ways to model financial data and isolate key global risk factors.

• In supply chain and logistics by finding the optimal routes across global systems like optimizing fleet operations for deliveries during the holiday season.

Where are we with Quantum Computing?

We are currently in a period of history when we can prepare for a future where quantum computers offer a clear computational advantage for solving important problems that are currently intractable. This is the “quantum ready” phase.

Think of it this way: What if everyone in the 1960s had a decade to prepare for PCs, from hardware to programming over the cloud, while they were still prototypes? In hindsight, we can all see that jumping in early would have been the right call. That’s where we are with quantum computing today. Now is the time to begin exploring what we can do with quantum computers, across a variety of potential applications. Those who wait until fault-tolerance might risk losing out on much nearer-term opportunities.

What is IBM's role?

Following Watson and blockchain, quantum computing may provide the next powerful set of services delivered via the IBM Cloud.

IBM Q is an industry-first initiative to build commercially available universal quantum computing systems for business and science. Today, IBM has a sophisticated prototype commercial quantum processor that will form the core of the first IBM Q early-access commercial systems for clients.

Leading Fortune 500 companies, academic institutions, and research labs are joining IBM Q Network to explore practical applications of quantum computing for business and science. The IBM Q Network provides organizations with quantum expertise, resources, and cloud-based access to the most advanced quantum systems.

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