Rise of the Quantum Machines: Fundamentals
Santanu Ganguly · Apress eBooks · 2021
Los Alamos Laboratory was celebrating its fortieth anniversary on April 14, 1983. Physics Laureate Richard P. Feynman stated in a lecture titled “Tiny Computers Obeying Quantum-Mechanical Laws” that computing based on classical logic could not easily and efficiently process calculations describing quantum phenomena. He offered his vision of computing that could operate in a quantum manner. Prior to making these historical comments, Feynman had always been a champion of thoughts leading toward computers leveraging laws of quantum mechanics when he stated, “There’s plenty of room at the bottom” and, “Nature isn’t classical. If you want to make a simulation of nature, you’d better make it quantum mechanical,” which means to properly simulate quantum systems, you must use a quantum computer.