JERUSALEM, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- An Israeli research university said on Monday that it has developed a quantum logic gate which could be used to scale up quantum computers.
Quantum computing is based on a theory in physics which describes nature at the smallest scales of energy levels of atoms and subatomic particles.
This logic gate can be used to exchange qubits both within and between quantum computers, according to Weizmann Institute of Science.
The future quantum computers may have the ability to crack the encryption currently used for secure electronic transactions, and efficiently solve unwieldy problems in which the number of possible solutions increases exponentially.