The Missing Engine Behind Quantum Computing Is Literally All Around Us

3 min read The answer to one of the biggest questions in quantum computing might have been all around us this whole time: light.

If this finding is validated by further research and implementation, it could help move quantum computing closer to real life.

The research starts from an understanding that quantum computing, or quantum information processing, is something fundamentally different from the paradigms we have today.

There’s no general purpose quantum computer.

“While these effects have been explored in the context of nanophotonic systems and quantum sensors, their implications for multiphoton quantum information processing have yet to be investigated,” the team explains.