"Hello, Multiverse!" - Quantum Computing and You
summary
Microsoft Research presents Q# and a Quantum Development Kit that run on a local simulator (about 20–30 qubits on a laptop, ~40 on a cluster) and target remote hardware cooled to around 15 mK with control electronics at ~4 K. Breaking 2048-bit RSA requires roughly 4000 qubits while many useful chemistry problems (simulating nitrogenase to rethink ammonia production) need only 200–250 qubits. The demo teleports a qubit state successfully; the Q# compiler enables qubit borrowing, gate-count estimation and algebraic optimizations.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 4:42Breaking RSA Encryption
- 15:01Information Encoding
- 21:19Digital / Quantum Computation
- 24:27Entanglement
- 25:41Physical Computation Landscape
- 28:34Logical Computation Model
- 32:08Example: Teleport Basis State
- 34:32Processing a Quantum Computation Sequence
- 40:50Bonus: Symbolic Computation
