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Quantum computers Science and technology have been abuzz about quantum computers for years but the device is not yet affecting our daily lives. The nebulous quantum future became one step closer this November when the journal  Nature  published two papers that showed some of the most advanced quantum systems. It's still too difficult to understand what a quantum computer is and what it can do, for that we have to know what a classical computer can do and how quantum computers differ from it. In classical computers for solving a problem, you have to enter the formula as input which would be taken as binary digits such as 0s and1s by the computer. So you have to solve problems based on this stream. But in quantum computers, your computer for instance can be placed in two different states at once. This principle called quantum superposition is used in quantum computers. Quantum computers could seamlessly encrypt data, help us make sense of the huge amount of data we have already colle