quantum computer

Definitions

General Science

• noun a computer that uses the quantum mechanical properties of elementary particles such as photons for transferring, processing and storing information

Electronics

• A computer whose basic unit of computing is the qubit. A quantum computer operates on all qubits simultaneously, thus is exponentially faster than conventional computers based, for instance, on the charge of a capacitor in RAM or on the magnetization of macroscopic particles on a hard disk.

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