May/June 2000
Quantum Computing
Computers that tap the bizarre properties of subatomic particles might calculate with awesome speed-cracking codes that stymie conventional machines.
By M. Mitchell Waldrop
"Every so often," says Isaac Chuang, sitting in his office at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, "something new comes along in physics, and everybody says Wow!' Then they get caught up in a whirlwind." In the 1970s, the whirlwind was chaos theory. In the late 1980s, it was high-temperature superconductivity. And now?
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