Eniac 1950: 30 tons, 150 KW, 1 KB, 100 KHz


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      Phone 2018: 5 oz., 1 W, 4 GB, 2 GHz


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      QC 2018: tons, KW, 20 Qubit (220 = 1 Mb), 1 MHz


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      QC 2050: ???


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Ion Trap Quantum Device

Co-designing a scalable quantum computer with trapped atomic ions, Kenneth R Brown, Jungsang Kim & Christopher Monroe, Nature 2016.
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      One Qubit

Superposition:   α |0> + β |1>

Complex Amplitudes:   α,   β

Probabilities:   |α|2,   |β|2

An Introduction to Quantum Computing, Without the Physics, Giacomo Nannicini, 2017.
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      Single Qubit Operations

Superposition

An Introduction to Quantum Computing, Without the Physics, Giacomo Nannicini, 2017.
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      Two Qubits

Entanglement

An Introduction to Quantum Computing, Without the Physics, Giacomo Nannicini, 2017.