Noun
quantum computing (uncountable)
(computing) The use of quantum mechanical phenomena to transcend classical time complexity limitations in computing.
Quantum computing has the potential to break many previously unbreakable forms of encryption.
We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor... Larry Wall
The most important application of quantum computing in the future is likely to be a computer simulation of quantum systems, because that's an application where we know for sure that quantum systems in general cannot be efficiently simulated on a classical computer. David Deutsch