quantum computers
Quantum physics is hard to understand, harder to explain, and much easier to define as “just magic.” That being said, the world of quantum computers is on the brink of making a lot of that magic a reality, at room temperature. While binary bits are the base units of traditional computation and they can be 1s and 0s, qubits can be 1s, 0s, or a combination of both which opens up to that magical world of computational possibilities. The problem, however, is for qubits to achieve “quantum coherence” (which is the state we want them in, to make the quantum magic work), they need to be kept at sub-freezing temperatures. The reason behind this is that qubits tend to lose their quantum properties when in contact with the environment, especially radiation.