Investors may have bit off more than they can chew with Wall Street's quantum computing darlings.
Though artificial intelligence (AI) has seemingly been the hottest thing since the advent and proliferation of the internet in the mid-1990s, it's not the only game-changing innovation that has Wall Street brimming with excitement. The evolution of quantum computing comes in a very close second.
Quantum computing relies on quantum mechanics to solve complex problems that traditional computers either can't handle or wouldn't be able to perform during our lifetime. While some of Wall Street's " Magnificent Seven " are dabbling in quantum computing hardware, it's a select group of pure-play stocks -- IonQ ( IONQ 18.46% ) and Rigetti Computing ( RGTI 20.26% ) -- that have s