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The quantum revolution: The way the world is
FT News Briefing
The Origins of Quantum Computing
In the 1980s, Deutsch decided to go over a famous paper written in 1936 by Alan Turing. In it, Turing outlined his idea of a universal machine that could solve any mathematical problem. He pointed out that Turing had been working with classical physics without considering the new field of quantum physics. So Deutsch came up with the idea of the quantum computer - a hypothetical computer that operated according to the laws of quantum physics and could do computations far beyond the capacities of classical computers.
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