Researchers have achieved a major milestone in quantum computing after successfully generating “truly random” numbers using the next-generation machines.
Quantum computers hold the potential to be orders of magnitude more powerful than the world’s best supercomputers by replacing traditional bits – the ‘ones’ and ‘zeros’ used to store and transfer digital data – with quantum bits, called qubits, that make use of a quantum phenomena known as superposition to exist in two states at once.
