{"id":112514,"date":"2025-05-18T19:51:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T19:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/112514\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T19:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T19:51:15","slug":"what-is-quantum-computing-and-what-can-quantum-computers-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/112514\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Quantum Computing and What Can Quantum Computers Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four decades ago, physicists were theorizing that the mind-bending mechanics of quantum physics could be harnessed to make a new kind of computer that\u2019s exponentially more powerful than conventional machines. A series of breakthroughs has now brought \u201cquantum utility\u201d closer to reality. A race is on to develop machines that are accurate enough to faithfully model the behavior of complex real-world phenomena and deliver a leap forward in fields as varied as drug development, financial modeling and artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n

They can do things that classical computers can\u2019t. Google revealed in December that its latest quantum processor, Willow, had solved a problem<\/a> in five minutes that the world\u2019s most powerful supercomputers wouldn\u2019t have been able to solve even if they had been working on it since the universe began. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four decades ago, physicists were theorizing that the mind-bending mechanics of quantum physics could be harnessed to make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3164],"tags":[51011,20955,1942,51,557,3284,8251,13641,24840,51012,15253,3358,3322,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-112514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","9":"tag-amazon-com-inc","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-computing","14":"tag-d-wave-quantum-inc","15":"tag-explainer","16":"tag-intel-corp","17":"tag-intl-business-machines-corp","18":"tag-microsoft-corp","19":"tag-quantum-computing","20":"tag-startups","21":"tag-technology","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114530581531517900","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}