Physicists perform the first ever execution of a quantum calculation
Professor Andrew White, from UQ's Centre for Quantum Computer Technology together with colleagues from the University of Toronto in Canada, said by manipulating quantum mechanically entangled photons – the fundamental particles of light – the prime factors of the number 15 were calculated.15 = 5 x 3 Not a very spectacular result, but as the number becomes bigger and bigger the problem becomes more and more difficult. Quantum computers are in principle well suited for this task
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Ben Lanyon, UQ doctoral student and the research paper's first author, said calculating the prime factors of 15 was a crucial step towards calculating much larger numbers, which could be used to crack cryptographic codes that are unbreakable using conventional computers.
Physicists perform the first ever quantum calculation
via: KurzweilAI.net
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