How Fast Can Quantum Computers Get?

said braka 2:17 AM
Over the past five decades, standard

computer processors have gotten increasingly faster. In recent years, however, the limits to that technologyhave become clear: Chip components can only get so small, and be packed only so closely together, before they overlap or short-circuit. If companies are to continue building ever-faster computers, something will need to change.
One key hope for the future of increasingly fast computing is my own field, quantum physics. Quantum computers are expected to be much faster than anything the information age has developed so far. But my recent research has revealed that quantum computers will have limits of their own – and has suggested ways to figure out what those limits are.