{"id":755787,"date":"2026-06-23T20:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/755787\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T20:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:47:18","slug":"what-is-quantum-computing-and-what-can-quantum-computers-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/755787\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Quantum Computing and What Can Quantum Computers Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four decades ago, physicists were theorizing that the mind-bending mechanics of quantum physics could be harnessed to make a new kind of computer that\u2019s exponentially more powerful than conventional machines. A series of breakthroughs has now brought \u201cquantum utility\u201d closer to reality. A race is on to develop machines that are accurate enough to faithfully model the behavior of complex real-world phenomena and deliver a leap forward in fields as varied as drug development, financial modelingBloomberg Terminal<\/a> and artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n

They can do things that classical computers can\u2019t. Google revealed in 2024 that its Willow quantum processor had solved a problemBloomberg Terminal<\/a> in five minutes that the world\u2019s most powerful supercomputers wouldn\u2019t have been able to solve even if they had been working on it since the universe began. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four decades ago, physicists were theorizing that the mind-bending mechanics of quantum physics could be harnessed to make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[24885,64,63,99,512,20633,2057,2542,18436,20634,292,2292,128,1483,105,3586,361830],"class_list":["post-755787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-physics","tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-china","tag-d-wave-quantum-inc","tag-europe","tag-explainer","tag-intl-business-machines-corp","tag-microsoft-corp","tag-physics","tag-quantum-computing","tag-science","tag-startups","tag-technology","tag-united-kingdom","tag-xanadu-quantum-technologies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}