Having a "100-GHz Single-Flux-Quantum Bit-Serial Adder" means we can finally have hope for classical computations at hundreds of GigaHertz?
Having a "100-GHz Single-Flux-Quantum Bit-Serial Adder" means we can finally have hope for classical computations at hundreds of GigaHertz?
Quantum computers are very different in that they maintain a non-classical state throughout many components, allowing certain kinds of matrix calculations to be solved significantly faster than is possible for any classical machine, analog or digital. (Although quantum solutions have a stochastic nature and there are other caveats to quantumness that potentially stand in the way of actually exceeding classical computers).
I can't speak for all architectures, but the ones I'm aware of absolutely are analog computers.
Source: building a quantum computer.
They're closer to analog computers than digital, but really they're neither and share some similarities of both. In the sense that the qubits usually only have 2 measurable states in computation, they're similar to digital computers, but that only goes for when you measure. On the other side, the 'programs' going in are not really digital information (though they can be represented as such), and because qubits are not only in one of 2 states (unlike bits) the way in which you interact/program them is definitely not digital, it is analog.
If you're interested in learning about writing quantum programs, I recommend checking out IBM's Qiskit toolkit[0]. I found the tutorials to be helpful for helping grasp the fundamentals of quantum programming.
Are there any resources you particularly recommend if I wanted to learn more about quantum computing and how quantum computers work on the hardware level?