Quantum supremacy

Quantum computers can solve problems that are practically unsolvable for “classical” computers to complete in any reasonable timeframe.

Quantum supremacy

Process information in ‘bits’ or 1s and 0s, They can process a ‘1’ or a ‘0’ at a time. The world’s most powerful super computer today can juggle 148,000 trillion operations in a second and requires about 9000 IBM CPUs connected in a particular combination to achieve this feat.

Quantum supremacy

Quantum computers compute in ‘qubits’. They exploit the properties of quantum mechanics(how matter behaves on the atomic scale. In this scheme of things), processors can be a 1 and a 0 simultaneously, a state called quantum superposition. While this accelerates the speed of computation, a machine with less than a 100 qubits can solve problems with a lot of data that are even theoretically beyond the capabilities of the most powerful supercomputers.