Andris is a computer scientist active in the fields of quantum information theory and quantum computing. His valuable scientific input into quantum computer theory makes him one of the world's leading scientists in this field. Andris has invented several of world's first algorithms for quantum computers, including a method to show that some computing problems are hard to solve even with a quantum computer. He is the first Latvian scientist to receive a grant for further research in quantum computing...
For over a decade, researchers have been trying to build quantum computers, machines based on quantum physics that could solve problems in different ways from classical computers and, potentially, represent a radical leap forward in computing. As Rivka Galchen explained in a 2011 article for the magazine, “Dream Machine,” quantum computation begins from the fact that a single particle can be in two places at one time, a quality known as superposition. Whereas conventional computers compute solutions...
