Scalable Quantum Computers: Paving The Way To Realization
by Samuel L. Braunstein /
2001 / English / DjVu
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Quantum computers hold the promise of solving problems that would
otherwise be intractable with conventional computers. Some
prototypes of the simplest elements needed to build a quantum
computer have already been implemented in the laboratory. The
efforts now concentrate on combining these elements into scalable
systems. In addition, alternative routes to creating large scale
quantum computers are continuously being developed.
Quantum computers hold the promise of solving problems that would
otherwise be intractable with conventional computers. Some
prototypes of the simplest elements needed to build a quantum
computer have already been implemented in the laboratory. The
efforts now concentrate on combining these elements into scalable
systems. In addition, alternative routes to creating large scale
quantum computers are continuously being developed.
This volume gives a cross-section of recent achievements in both
the theory and the practical realization of quantum computing
devices. Samuel L. Braunstein (Reader, University of Wales, Bangor,
and editor of the book "Quantum Computing - Where do we want to go
tomorrow") and Hoi-Kwong Lo (Chief Scientist, MagiQ Technologies,
Inc., NY) invited experts across many disciplines involved in the
development of quantum computers to review their proposals in a
manner accessible to the non-expert.
This volume gives a cross-section of recent achievements in both
the theory and the practical realization of quantum computing
devices. Samuel L. Braunstein (Reader, University of Wales, Bangor,
and editor of the book "Quantum Computing - Where do we want to go
tomorrow") and Hoi-Kwong Lo (Chief Scientist, MagiQ Technologies,
Inc., NY) invited experts across many disciplines involved in the
development of quantum computers to review their proposals in a
manner accessible to the non-expert.
Breaking with tradition, this book not only contains proposals, but
a set of independent expert evaluations of these ideas as well. As
a by-product this volume facilitates a comparison between the
widely varying disciplines covered, including: ion traps, cavity
quantum electrodynamics, nuclear magnetic resonance, optical
lattices, quantum dots, silicon systems, superconductivity and
electrons on helium.
Breaking with tradition, this book not only contains proposals, but
a set of independent expert evaluations of these ideas as well. As
a by-product this volume facilitates a comparison between the
widely varying disciplines covered, including: ion traps, cavity
quantum electrodynamics, nuclear magnetic resonance, optical
lattices, quantum dots, silicon systems, superconductivity and
electrons on helium.