The Quantum Way of Doing Computations

Since the mid-1990s, we have seen how computers and many of their applications can be enhanced using quantum physics. This is timely since "Moore’s law", for the continuing development of conventional computers, will not apply to ever-smaller electronic components governed by quantum physics. All computations, in our heads or in computational devices, rely on the real physical processes of data input, data representation in a memory, data manipulation using algorithms and finally, data output.