Computing the Quantum World

Computing the Quantum World

If you ask Duke physicist Natalie Klco, most computers in use today get nature all wrong.

 

“Nature at its core is not a deterministic set of ones and zeros,” Klco says.

To really understand how nature works, particularly at the subatomic level, the assistant professor is trying to figure out if quantum computing — now expanding at Duke and elsewhere — might do better. The hope, she says, is to tackle problems that even the world's fastest supercomputers haven't been able to address.