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Can we build a quantum computer?
Speakers explored potential applications of the quantum world at the Cheltenham Science Festival.
What would happen if the strange quantum behaviour of atoms could be harnessed into a computer?
A machine using atoms to store information could, in theory, solve problems that would take a modern PC the age of the universe to complete – but can it be done? Quantum physicists Gavin Morley, Winfried Hensinger and Elham Kashefi discussed whether the theory of quantum computing will ever become a reality.
This event was part of The Times Cheltenham Science Festival 2015.