Part one of term paper
Imagine a computer whose memory is exponentially larger than its apparent physical size; a computer that can manipulate an exponential set of inputs simultaneously; a computer that computes in the twilight zone of space. You would be thinking of . Relatively few and simple concepts from quantum mechanics are needed to make quantum computers ...

Part two of term paper
... because individual particles behave like waves, these different places are different states that an atom can exist in simultaneously. What’s the big deal about quantum computing? Imagine you were in a large office building and you had to retrieve a briefcase left on a desk picked at random in one of hundreds of offices. In the same way that you would have to walk through the building, opening doors one at a time to find the briefcase, an ordinary computer has to make it way through long str ...