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A Critical Overview on Quantum Computing
Saptarshi Sahoo1,*, Amit Kumar Mandal1, Pijus Kanti Samanta2, Indranil Basu1, Pratik Roy1
1 Institute of Engineering and Management Salt Lake Electronics Complex, Kolkata, 700091, West Bengal, India
2 Department of Physics (PG & UG), Prabhat Kumar College, Contai, 721404, West Bengal, India
* Corresponding Author: Saptarshi Sahoo. Email:
Journal of Quantum Computing 2020, 2(4), 181-192. https://doi.org/10.32604/jqc.2020.015688
Received 10 November 2020; Accepted 26 December 2020; Issue published 07 January 2021
Abstract
Quantum Computing and Quantum Information Science seem very
promising and developing rapidly since its inception in early 1980s by Paul
Benioff with the proposal of quantum mechanical model of the Turing machine
and later By Richard Feynman and Yuri Manin for the proposal of a quantum
computers for simulating various problems that classical computer could not.
Quantum computers have a computational advantage for some problems, over
classical computers and most applications are trying to use an efficient
combination of classical and quantum computers like Shor’s factoring algorithm.
Other areas that are expected to be benefitted from quantum computing are
Machine Learning and deep learning, molecular biology, genomics and cancer
research, space exploration, atomic and nuclear research and macro-economic
forecasting. This paper represents a brief overview of the state of art of quantum
computing and quantum information science with discussions of various
theoretical and experimental aspects adopted by the researchers.
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Cite This Article
S. Sahoo, A. Kumar Mandal, P. Kanti Samanta, I. Basu and P. Roy, "A critical overview on quantum computing,"
Journal of Quantum Computing, vol. 2, no.4, pp. 181–192, 2020.