In recent years it computing developed with great speed.
According to scientist Gordon Earl Moore, the number of
transistors on a processor would double every 24 months or
so. Transistors are the fundamental elements for a processor to
perform calculations. Therefore, this prediction known as
Moore's Law means that the processing power of a computer
would double every two years.
Regularly see companies like Intel and AMD launch ever faster
processors. For this, it is necessary to manipulate portions of
the increasingly smaller area. But there is a limit to this. When
transistors are beginning to be made with only a few molecules,
it is difficult to reduce its size further and thus increase the
capacity of our electronics.
Therefore, quantum computing is the science that studies the
use of quantum mechanics to perform computational processing.
Security would also benefit from systems using these
technologies. In a quantum system, simple observation alters the
results of a phenomenon. Imagine if sending a message
between two computers using a property of a set of particles.
We could send along a security message. If this security
message arrives at your destination with a change means that
any observer (a cracker or a spy for example) had intercepted
the message before it reached its destination. This type of
strategy is called Quantum Cryptography. Some banks in
Austria already use this kind of technology for secure
transmission of information.
The Canadian company D-Wave says it has developed the first
quantum computer. This machine search speed processing while
keeping the CPU at temperatures close to absolute zero. But
many experts do not consider this device as a quantum
computer not to use the phenomena of quantum physics
directly in the processing activity. Thus the performance of this
machine is not much higher than other super computers
available in the market.
Quantum Computing proved capable of providing the necessary
means to expand our appliances calculation capacity further, but
it is still an experimental technology. It will take a long time to
this type of technology to be produced in large scale and be
available on our computers, tablets, and mobile phones.
Título : Quantum Computing
EAN : 9781393439585
Editorial : IntroBooks
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