The airline announced today that it is holding a global competition to encourage developers to find ways to apply quantum computing to aircraft design. Quantum computing is one of the next generation computing architectures. Many people are exploring this technology for fear that traditional computing will reach the physical limit.
Today's computers use a circuit composed of transistors, in which 0 or 1 bits are stored to process information. Quantum computers use the power of quantum systems, such as atoms that can exist in multiple states at the same time, and can be used as "qubits" or "qubits", which can theoretically handle more complicated calculations.
Before scientists can realize quantum computing, they still need to solve various scientific problems. Airbus hopes to accelerate the development of quantum computing through this new initiative. The company pointed out that it has explored the application of quantum computing in areas such as "route optimization and satellite images".
For the Airbus Quantum Computing Challenge, the company hopes that researchers and developers can find ways to apply this technology to these five aspects of aircraft design: optimizing aircraft climb; Optimize the wing box design; Computational fluid dynamics; Partial differential equation and aircraft loading optimization.
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