How we created the first ever blueprint for a real quantum computer

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. But we have now managed to draw up an actual nuts and bolts construction plan to build a large-scale quantum computer, published in the journal Science Advances. In the same way as a conventional computer encodes information as a series of 0’s and 1’s, also referred to as bits, a quantum computer makes use of quantum bits, which can be zero and one at the same time – giving enormous processing power! The quantum microchip acts like a computer mother board with the ions being transported using electric fields from memory regions to processing regions and beyond. What we developed is a concept where the quantum computer consists of many modules and ions can be transported from one module to another using electric fields in order to connect the modules to perform difficult calculations.