Australia could become home to the world's first commercially useful quantum compute , with the Federal and Queensland Governments investing nearly a billion dollars to build and house the technology in Brisbane. Quantum computers have long been touted for their potential to revolutionize a range of scientific fields.
Computers, as we know them today, store and process information using what is known as "bits", which hold values of either zero or one.
A quantum computer processes bits that can exist as both a one and a zero simultaneously - they're called qubits.
Professor Andrew White is the Director of the Centre of Engineered Quantum Systems at the University of Queensland.
He says it’s this phenomenon - of existing in multiple states at the same time – that is key to the technology.
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