Why can't multiple computers be linked to run different probabilities simultaneously to accomplish the same as a quantum computer? - eviltoast

The title says it all. If qubits can be in the position of a 1 and 0, why can’t multiple computers using 1s and 0s accomplish the same thing?

  • cynar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Actually, it’s explicitly not all in between. The quantum state is a super position, not a smear. It is (ideally) both 1 and 0, but nothing in between.

    It’s power comes when you have a multi bit number. 16 bits give 65536 possibilities. A classical computer would have to check each one individually to process them all. A quantum computer does them all in 1 go.

    While it gets very messy in the implementation, quantum computers are still binary, just quantum binary. No infinities needed