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Asked by 737eneq35 to Oliver, Lesley, Leah, Hannah, Graeme, Aleks on 7 Mar 2019.
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Graeme Burt answered on 7 Mar 2019:
No sorry. I use a fluorescent screen to visualise electrons or we detect the radiation they give off. Quantum computers aren’t much use for my type of engineering.
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Hannah Griffin answered on 7 Mar 2019:
No but someone who did their work experience with me, returned for a couple of summers as vacation student and got into cryogenics, is currently a PhD student researching areas related to quantum computing…. I’ll have to ask them!
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Lesley Colquhoun answered on 12 Mar 2019:
no sorry! will need to read up on that! never come across that in my work.
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Leah Morgan answered on 13 Mar 2019:
So rather than them just being a really small computer, quantum computer work using quantum mechanics. Where normal computers store information in bits as 1s and 0s, quantum computers use different particle states (these can be thought of as 1s and 0s) or a mix of the two called a superposition. If you measure a superimposed particle though it always switches back to 1 or 0. I’m not sure how you would use a quantum computer to visualise particles, since at the moment I think they are basically just switches that store information as a 1 or a 0. Maybe one day in the future when they’ve fixed all the problems! 🙂
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