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CPM Seminar
Raymond Laflamme LANL Quantum computation is a new and exciting emerging field bringing together information, computer and physical sciences. It has recently been discovered that computers obeying the laws of quantum mechanics (instead of the usual classical ones) can be much more powerful than their classical counterparts. I will describe some problems where it is possible to take advantage of the quantum laws. On the road to make these machines reality we have to face the difficulty of making them robust against imperfection and imprecision. I will describe how can this be done, at least in principle. Finally I will describe recent experiments attempting to build prototypes for such quantum computers such as liquid state NMR. I will explain how these experiments are done and what we have learned from them.
Tuesday, November 14th 2000, 15:30 |