Qusoft would be applied as a software counterpart Qutech, the institute in Delft is working on the hardware for a quantum computer.
Qusoft opens Thursday officially and will be headed by Professor Harry Buhrman who has been doing for a long time researching the algorithms could use quantum computers.
A quantum computer does not work with “normal” bits, but with so-called qubits. Which are particularly, because they can not only have a value of 0 or 1, but can also be in a “superposition” wherein the qubit has both values.
This gives new opportunities for software, and means for example, that quantum computers theoretically very will be well into the crack existing encryption methods.
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Buhrman tells Tweakers that more attention should be paid to Quantum software so that quantum computers can actually be useful as scientists, they get to work. Currently, the best quantum computers around eight qubits.
“Within a few years we will sit around the fifty qubits. That means 2 ^ 50 steps takes to simulate such a system and potentially you can 2 ^ 50 calculations do little at a time, “says Buhrman.
“Then you’re already at the point where an ordinary computer is already outdated and is at one hundred qubits could be a normal computer that anymore, because it takes an ordinary computer 2 ^ 100 steps and so astronomically are that it will not succeed in the next century. “
Initially employs fifteen people Qusoft, but it must be within five years around forty.
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