Quantum Computer Works Best When Off

From New Scientist comes a short story about a theory that quantum computers will still be looking for answers when they're off. This is pretty mind blowing. Even more amazing is the fact that this post wrote itself on a quantum computer in the future, which also happened to be off.


"With the right set-up, the theory suggested, the computer would sometimes get an answer out of the computer even though the program did not run. And now researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have improved on the original design and built a non-running quantum computer that really works."