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Subject: Are there situations that quantum computers cannot handle?

Date: Mon Feb 19 19:02:08 2001
Posted by Michael
Grade level: 10-12 School: GA
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Area of science: Physics
ID: 982627328.Ph
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From what i've read, quantum computers could be extremely powerful compared to 
conventional ones, however, from what i understand, they would be limited to 
tasks where you want to compute several possibilities.

If one was to encode some data using a quantum computer, i understand that you 
would end up with several different copies of it in the encoded form, the 
number depending on the size and number of variables involved.

Another thing i was wondering was would a quantum neural network work? I cant 
see how it would. Yet i think that combining the power of neural nets and 
quantum computers could be very useful.

thanks for your help.


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