If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
Niels Bohr, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1922
for “his services in the investigation of the
structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating
from them”
Chapter 2Goodbye Mr. Bits—From Classical to Quantum Bits
The program that solved the Hotel Scheduling Problem in the previous chapter, as well as the output, were in a form similar to what we would see in classical computing. Yet the machinery on which the program ran lies squarely in the crosshairs of quantum mechanics. The binary bits of classical computers are replaced by bits whose behavior is governed by particle physics, which opens ways of computing that have the potential to dramatically boost ...
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