Colombia in the International Year of Light

Session

Public Session F

19 Jun 2015, 18:00

3. Quantum computers and Schrödinger’s cat

19/06/2015, 18:00

As the size of computer logic gates and memory elements approaches the atomic scale, we are forced to deal with the constraints imposed by the laws of quantum mechanics. However, we now also know that a computer based on quantum mechanics could solve certain problems that are intractable on conventional computers. Interestingly, if this device could be made on a large scale it would have the...