IBM opens its first European quantum data center in Germany

Good development. Quantum computers are able to use the fact that qubits are in superposition in configurations (circuits) of logic gates (AND / OR / NOT / possible output. These are mostly problems with many variables that can play at the same time, such as the traveling salesman problem, which can be solved much faster with a quantum computer.It is more practical, for example, to calculate possible molecular structures to be there for medicines.

It will certainly not replace the classic computer for all applications, but development is going fast, and for example, to verify (some) cryptographic keys, you already have to think about algorithms quantum-safe for today’s data that will still be secret in 10 years. It’s a different way of thinking & programming, and there are all sorts of quantum computing as a service available from various cloud providers to get you started, as well as SDKs such as: It is tight and APIs like strange.

Within the Netherlands, a lot of work is also being done on research into the use of quantum computers, for example in quantum networks, where the network hardware also works in a different way.