Datum 2014
of these electrons can then be controlled using lasers or
INTERESTING FACTS
electric fields.
SUPERCONDUCTING CIRCUITS: Superconducting circuits are simply electrical circuits which are made of superconducting material. Superconducting circuits can form qubits by the flow of current. The current can be made to flow
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in both directions at once (simultaneously) in the quantum
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state of superposition.The advantage is that they use mil-
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lions of electrons instead of controlling individual particles.
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Superconducting circuits have to work at extremely low tem-
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peratures.
Web” in 1990.
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Amazon, originally a printed book seller company,
The first domain name ever registered was SymTim Berners-Lee coined the phrase “World Wide
U.S. President Bill Clinton’s inauguration in January
QUANTOM GATES:We have seen the enormous superiority
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that qubits have over bits. This means nothing though, if we
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don't have a way of manipulating the information in qubits. To
tricity per year, more than most countries. However,
manipulate information in a qubit, quantum gates are used.
google generates a lot of their own power with their
Google uses an estimated 15 billion kWh of elec-
solar panels.
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Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was a college
drop out.
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Bill Gates house was designed Using a Macintosh
computer.
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About 1.8 billion people connect to the Internet,
only 450 million of them speak English.
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In 2012, approximately 17 billion devices (which
includes computers, tablets and mobile) connected to
the Internet.
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Sweden has the highest percentage of internet
How quantum gates work: A quantum gate works similar to
users, they are 75%.
a classical logic gate. Classical logic gates take bits as input;
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evaluate and process the input and produce new bits as out-
fore the World Wide Web came?
put. In the example below (refer to diagram CLG), the logic
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gate takes in 0101 as input, which goes through the gate and
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an output of 10 is produced.
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Did you know that Email was already around beUp until the 14th of September, 1995, domain regOne of the world’s leading computer and comput-
er peripheral manufacturer Hewlett Packard was first
Reversibility: Another property of quantum gates it that
started in a garage at Palo Alto in the year 1939.
they are reversible unlike many classical logic gates. This
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means that the outputs can be converted back into the origi-
about 5 million terabytes of data (1TB = 1,000GB), and
nal input. Why is it necessary? In order to preserve the quan-
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tum state. In order for the gates to be reversible, the number
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