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Quantum Computing

Counterfactual Quantum Computation is Really Weird

Events that could have happened but didn’t, so called counterfactual events, are but a mind-game in our reality. In quantum reality, however, they are quite real indeed. In this video I explain how this can be used to do a computation without actually running the computer. This is called “counterfactual computation” (or “counterfactual quantum computation” […]

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Quantum Computing

Will Your Next Computer be a Quantum Computer?

Two Bit da Vinci ponders what recent advances in quantum computing mean for science, medicine, and humanity. While it’s unlikely that your next laptop or cellphone will be a quantum computer, I wouldn’t rule out the idea of the iPhone Q coming out sometime in the next decade or two.

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