That was quantum quality!

it seems quantum computers are quickly becoming an important new field in computer science.
I just read this article: http://singularityhub.com/2013/06/05/google-buys-quantum-computer-for-artificial-intelligence-lab-at-nasa/ , and I was perplexed because I remember when scientists made a some kind of single "quantum-transistor" not too long ago.

anyway, I was wondering, are there any new, experimental programming languages designed for quantum computing? Or are there any ide's that emulate the behavior of quantum computing?

Doesn't Haskell have some quantum operators? I remember coming across that some time ago.

A Google search gives me:

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~sabry/papers/quantum.pdf‎
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~txa/publ/qio.pdf‎
http://fop.cs.nott.ac.uk/qml/compiler/

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Yes, some UK Uni put an emulator online. Bristol maybe.

Necro-bumping this thread instead of creating a new one. I was recently invited to visit MSR's QuArC lab with a couple dozen other devs. Technically under NDA, but idgaf. I've seen some shit to dispel the myth that quantum computing won't ever be accessible to normie devices. Namely, you need to know that mainstream quantum processors will be a reality in about 8-10 years, able to run at standard operating temperature of 32C-70C without exotic cooling. Some NV guys were there, and they were talking about prototypes of QFT raytracing hardware able to sample all possible rays per pixel in a single timestep, with reasonable probability that 99.999% of pixels were accurate. Also lots of security guys.

Anyway, when I got home, I immediately started switching over to using NTRU public/private keys instead of RSA.

Also, if you want to know what you should spend time learning next, now you know. Will start being big in about 4-5 years, presentation I saw said $200 billion industry by then, and $1-$2 trillion by 2030.