How it works

Qubits, which may both be 1 and 0 simultaneously, are used in quantum computers to do calculations based on the likelihood of an object's state prior to measurement. The amount of linked qubits exponentially increases the quantum computing power.

A single qubit can do two computations at simultaneously, two qubits can perform four, three qubits can perform eight, and so on, with exponentially increasing speed. Thirty qubits can do more than one billion calculations simultaneously.